Come on, the wii is casual gaming. Casual gaming is not the same as what would be considered "hardcore"
Its simpler than that. Its framing the question by careful selection of description to get the answer you want. It has little relationship with reality of course.
Real gaming, also known hardcore gaming, is just endless remakes of Wolfenstein3D from 1992. I thought it was fun for a couple years (decades?) but now its pretty boring. "I've got a good idea, lets fight WWII again, err, uh, I mean lets do it again in higher res"
Not real gaming, also known as "casual" or "for noobs" is merely the entire human experience of technologically aided recreation with the sole exclusion of first person shooters.
While Google has made it clear that Cr-48 is nothing more than a test prototype...
I'm waiting for the final version, which I presume will be called the C-64. I hope my old "Little Computer People" disk is still viable...
How about HP's offering, the HP-48? There's a model number I enjoyed using 20 years ago. Display technology and storage have improved since then, while UI and capabilities have declined.
it gets to be annoying as it turns to.. an ugly yellow/brown from thaw cycles.
Umm, I hate to break it to you Brewmeister but that yellow/brown isn't from freeze thaw cycles. Theres a bit of a biological component there. Seen any dogs near that snow recently?
Going outside at this time of year is a pain because it's cold. Here's a really weird random question: If we had (hypothetically) unlimited energy/power (and I do mean unlimited), could we effectively, cheaply and practically heat all our streets from 0 to say 24 degrees c, or would it be too noisy, costly on parts, or otherwise impractical?
If you had hypothetical unlimited labor to maintain and patch all the leaks (assuming a hot water system here...)
All you "really" need to do is heat it to 1 degree C for fairly obvious reasons.
You'd have serious animal issues. You'd have snow free roads but they'd be covered in snakes and reptiles.
The definition of broadband is constantly changing
The definition is meaningless in two ways:
1) Its a monopolized and mostly unregulated unfree market which means that the definition doesn't matter. You can argue the definition of a good hamburger if there are a hundred different local and franchise restaurants, general and specialty food stores, farmers markets, and online shopping to select your burger and/or its ingredients. However, in a prison cell you eat whatever the warden decides to serve or you starve, so arguing the definition of bread as in bread and water is kind of pointless, you gonna eat it or not?
2) The only thing that matters is the end user experience and usage patterns and technology have not changed in AT LEAST half a decade, although the fad website of the month obviously changes each month. Who cares how often they change a definition that has no impact whatsoever on user experience?
And for the record, the Civil War was *absolutely* about slaves, at least to the South. Read some of their declarations - they're full of "they're infringing on our right to keep slaves" or "they think slaves count as too much of a person" or so on.
Waaaay out of context quotes. The whole point was the feds were bypassing the states and telling the states how their people will be governed. Not a fight over the finer points details of the regulations, although plenty of whining came from the folks whom were getting screwed over, but a fight over the concept of the feds infringing on the states turf. Its hard for moderns to understand, because the concept of any group other than the feds having any control over our lives has been so effectively crushed. Yet, thats how it was, back then.
Out of context quotes from slaveowners proves it was about slave ownership, in much the same way as out of context quotes from railroad executives about federal regulations proves it was about railroads, out of context quotes from cotton wholesalers about federal cotton tariffs proves it was about cotton, or out of context quotes from telegraph monopolies about federal common carrier regulation proves it was about telegraph monopolies.
If you disagree, how would you have handled the above situations? Keep in mind that.... secession... are not acceptable outcomes in this game.
Any reasoning for that particular one beyond "slimjim sez so"? Is civil war in always acceptable?
Also w/ regard to a war being required to end colonial control, most (all?) former British colonies did not have to fight an outright war to become independent. Its hardly necessary. There were "Boston Massacre" or "Kent State" or much larger police actions in India, but I'm struggling to find another major intercontinental war ending British colonial control. The war of Australian independence? The war of Canadian independence? The war of Jamaican independence? The Falkland Islands war between regional powers whom wanted to control the islands in the 80s does not apply.
Like yourself, I'm by no means a peacenik nor warmonger, but when 2/3 of the "proof" is obviously wrong, then its looking like a trolling attempt.
In the 1890's I bet USA thought it would be a thousand years or more before Japan ever attacked US soil.
Hawaii wasn't annexed until 1898 and frankly most people didn't think of it as "US soil" for quite a long time. The odds of Japan attacking Michigan anytime soon remain low. Adding to the weirdness, before they began their decades long economic crash, there was a moment in the 1980s when the majority of land in Hawaii was purchased/mortgaged by the Japanese, now that would probably have surprised them.
Its framed as a war between the content providers and the monopoly last mile providers. But the real economic war will be between the ad networks aka google and the monopoly last mile providers.
How bout a pay as you go monthly bus pass? Or a pay as you go police service? Pay as you go public library? Pay as you go medical care, which has worked so well in the USA? Pay as you go mail delivery (as opposed to sending mail) ?
ISPs don't pay per volume. The most common metric is a base price depending on the maximum throughput plus a variable price based on the 95th bandwidth percentile.
A pretty accurate summary of buying transit. On the other hand, peering is a fixed monthly fee (usually quite low) to trade local traffic with your immediate physical neighbors almost always at zero per byte cost.
And of course ALL the other expenses of an ISP are constant per month. Electric, salaries, rent, equipment loan interest, private line interconnects, property taxes, etc...
My question is why I can't simply choose to buy a bundle (for example, the NBC bundle you listed) instead of being forced to buy the 700 other channels the cable company offers. Those 700 other channels aren't required to be bundled with the NBC bundle.
Depending on whom you talk to, and how you define things, 95% of television is owned by about three multinational holding corporations. You can spend hours surfing wikipedia, or just take my word for it.
The most you could possibly hope for is a small handful of bundles, which isn't really worth the immense billing hassle.
Most of the small potatoes more or less round down to zero cost anyway. The dynamic range of cost is similar to the range of athlete salaries, a couple whom get zillions and the rest are basically volunteers. It would be well worth it to not pay for ESPN if you don't want it. It would be pointless to argue about the one cent per year hillbilly channel.
Given production to air delay, she could already be home nursing.
Anyone heard of any nursing myths? Maybe we can make some up? No idea how we'll work the mandatory Mythbusters "and now, we blow stuff up" into that episode.
Imagine how much more people would support for their favorite football team (or condemn the opponents) if they could affect the outcome of the game?
Many already think they do. Aside from the delusional, on a very small scale, via purchases of tickets and tee shirts, they do influence the winners, since the wealthiest team usually wins.
You're also comparing a sample of nearly 100 years against a recent sample. There will be movies from this year that in 50 years will be considered classics.
There is at best a 2 in 3 chance that maybe one movie this year might make it into a "top 100" list. Not necessarily "movies" not necessarily "classics"
No, seriously, can anyone explain to me why some people insist on capitalizing every letter in their e-mails and/or comments?.... I seriously doubt these folks write in all caps when they use a pen (or do they???),
Nobody does CAD/Blueprints in cursive, not by hand and not by CAD. A large segment of the working population had their first interaction with "the computer" via CAD, not necessarily as a drafter but as a reader of what was drafted. So of course ALL "computer stuff" should be done in all caps block letters.
Also the more blue collar the more likely their penmanship is unreadable thus the more likely there is to be a workplace rule that all handwritten communication is to be all block letters / all caps just to simplify.
Why the continuing bother with Caps Lock, SysRq, Scroll Lock, and Break? Does anyone use them?
sysRq aka "print screen" used constantly at work.
Easily half the emails I get have something "alt-prtscrn" then "control-V" into the email. Bonus points if they copy-paste into a "paint" program and draw their comments all over it.
Almost all bug reports, anything even tangentially relating to CAD blueprints, basically anything thats not just plain ole text that is under discussion.
then redo the experiment to see whether they can reproduce the result.
See:
So the bulk of the refutation in the blog posting seems to focus on some procedures
"I keep doing the wrong thing, and getting the wrong result, WTF?"
Very much like the tired old meme that won't die of aluminum found in the brains of Alzheimers patients. Every time they sliced specimens in an aluminum microtome, they detected aluminum in the specimens.
They can make their money on performances and T-Shirts.
Performing training classes, and perform consultative services. Is / was Sun THE place to go to hire a java consultant code monkey? If not, why not? Imagine if Sun as headhunter could have skimmed just one percent of the salary of every java code monkey out there. I would guess the "owners" of a product could pull in perhaps 10% of the total service market without even trying, imagine 10% of all Java code money salaries. Whom better to buy services from, than the folks whom own it?
T-Shirts with stuff written on them, the true meaning of which being "I paid Sun $3K for tests, books, and classes in exchange for a cert claiming to prove I know how to code in Java". That claim might even be true, all the better. Whom better to teach you than the guys whom own it?
There is also an interesting loophole in the GPL and some other licenses that merely makes it required to distribute source when you DISTRIBUTE binaries. You can invent, plan, architect, design, experiment, test, roll out internally anything you want, and SELL TRAINING AND PRERELEASE DOCS AND CONSULTATIVE SERVICES you just can't distribute a binary without releasing the source to the recipients of the binary. Lets say that 20% of the java code monkeys out there would pay 5% of their salary (almost like union dues?) to learn exactly where java is going six months in advance, putting them six months ahead of their non-paying competitors, perhaps on a NDA or perhaps no NDA for even more money.
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Come on, the wii is casual gaming. Casual gaming is not the same as what would be considered "hardcore"
Its simpler than that. Its framing the question by careful selection of description to get the answer you want. It has little relationship with reality of course.
Real gaming, also known hardcore gaming, is just endless remakes of Wolfenstein3D from 1992. I thought it was fun for a couple years (decades?) but now its pretty boring. "I've got a good idea, lets fight WWII again, err, uh, I mean lets do it again in higher res"
Not real gaming, also known as "casual" or "for noobs" is merely the entire human experience of technologically aided recreation with the sole exclusion of first person shooters.
While Google has made it clear that Cr-48 is nothing more than a test prototype...
I'm waiting for the final version, which I presume will be called the C-64. I hope my old "Little Computer People" disk is still viable...
How about HP's offering, the HP-48? There's a model number I enjoyed using 20 years ago. Display technology and storage have improved since then, while UI and capabilities have declined.
AMPS cellphones definitely first deployed in the US in 1983 (IMTS dates back to early 60s but you specifically stated cellular offerings)
Inmarsat formed in 79 but its very unclear when they began service (beyond, obviously, after 1979)
why not just put a cellphone chip in each one?
You can also increase your subscription revenue that way. That'll be $100/month for the cellphone and $200/month for the satphone.
it gets to be annoying as it turns to .. an ugly yellow/brown from thaw cycles.
Umm, I hate to break it to you Brewmeister but that yellow/brown isn't from freeze thaw cycles. Theres a bit of a biological component there. Seen any dogs near that snow recently?
Going outside at this time of year is a pain because it's cold. Here's a really weird random question: If we had (hypothetically) unlimited energy/power (and I do mean unlimited), could we effectively, cheaply and practically heat all our streets from 0 to say 24 degrees c, or would it be too noisy, costly on parts, or otherwise impractical?
If you had hypothetical unlimited labor to maintain and patch all the leaks (assuming a hot water system here...)
All you "really" need to do is heat it to 1 degree C for fairly obvious reasons.
You'd have serious animal issues. You'd have snow free roads but they'd be covered in snakes and reptiles.
The definition of broadband is constantly changing
The definition is meaningless in two ways:
1) Its a monopolized and mostly unregulated unfree market which means that the definition doesn't matter. You can argue the definition of a good hamburger if there are a hundred different local and franchise restaurants, general and specialty food stores, farmers markets, and online shopping to select your burger and/or its ingredients. However, in a prison cell you eat whatever the warden decides to serve or you starve, so arguing the definition of bread as in bread and water is kind of pointless, you gonna eat it or not?
2) The only thing that matters is the end user experience and usage patterns and technology have not changed in AT LEAST half a decade, although the fad website of the month obviously changes each month. Who cares how often they change a definition that has no impact whatsoever on user experience?
And for the record, the Civil War was *absolutely* about slaves, at least to the South. Read some of their declarations - they're full of "they're infringing on our right to keep slaves" or "they think slaves count as too much of a person" or so on.
Waaaay out of context quotes. The whole point was the feds were bypassing the states and telling the states how their people will be governed. Not a fight over the finer points details of the regulations, although plenty of whining came from the folks whom were getting screwed over, but a fight over the concept of the feds infringing on the states turf. Its hard for moderns to understand, because the concept of any group other than the feds having any control over our lives has been so effectively crushed. Yet, thats how it was, back then.
Out of context quotes from slaveowners proves it was about slave ownership, in much the same way as out of context quotes from railroad executives about federal regulations proves it was about railroads, out of context quotes from cotton wholesalers about federal cotton tariffs proves it was about cotton, or out of context quotes from telegraph monopolies about federal common carrier regulation proves it was about telegraph monopolies.
If you disagree, how would you have handled the above situations? Keep in mind that .... secession ... are not acceptable outcomes in this game.
Any reasoning for that particular one beyond "slimjim sez so"? Is civil war in always acceptable?
Also w/ regard to a war being required to end colonial control, most (all?) former British colonies did not have to fight an outright war to become independent. Its hardly necessary. There were "Boston Massacre" or "Kent State" or much larger police actions in India, but I'm struggling to find another major intercontinental war ending British colonial control. The war of Australian independence? The war of Canadian independence? The war of Jamaican independence? The Falkland Islands war between regional powers whom wanted to control the islands in the 80s does not apply.
Like yourself, I'm by no means a peacenik nor warmonger, but when 2/3 of the "proof" is obviously wrong, then its looking like a trolling attempt.
In the 1890's I bet USA thought it would be a thousand years or more before Japan ever attacked US soil.
Hawaii wasn't annexed until 1898 and frankly most people didn't think of it as "US soil" for quite a long time. The odds of Japan attacking Michigan anytime soon remain low. Adding to the weirdness, before they began their decades long economic crash, there was a moment in the 1980s when the majority of land in Hawaii was purchased/mortgaged by the Japanese, now that would probably have surprised them.
Its framed as a war between the content providers and the monopoly last mile providers. But the real economic war will be between the ad networks aka google and the monopoly last mile providers.
How bout a pay as you go monthly bus pass? Or a pay as you go police service? Pay as you go public library? Pay as you go medical care, which has worked so well in the USA? Pay as you go mail delivery (as opposed to sending mail) ?
ISPs don't pay per volume. The most common metric is a base price depending on the maximum throughput plus a variable price based on the 95th bandwidth percentile.
A pretty accurate summary of buying transit. On the other hand, peering is a fixed monthly fee (usually quite low) to trade local traffic with your immediate physical neighbors almost always at zero per byte cost.
And of course ALL the other expenses of an ISP are constant per month. Electric, salaries, rent, equipment loan interest, private line interconnects, property taxes, etc ...
My question is why I can't simply choose to buy a bundle (for example, the NBC bundle you listed) instead of being forced to buy the 700 other channels the cable company offers. Those 700 other channels aren't required to be bundled with the NBC bundle.
Depending on whom you talk to, and how you define things, 95% of television is owned by about three multinational holding corporations. You can spend hours surfing wikipedia, or just take my word for it.
The most you could possibly hope for is a small handful of bundles, which isn't really worth the immense billing hassle.
Most of the small potatoes more or less round down to zero cost anyway. The dynamic range of cost is similar to the range of athlete salaries, a couple whom get zillions and the rest are basically volunteers. It would be well worth it to not pay for ESPN if you don't want it. It would be pointless to argue about the one cent per year hillbilly channel.
Since the reciever doesn't send a request for a specific channel
Not in the era of SDV switched digital video, where the channels are dynamically remapped based on what yer neighbors are watching.
Not much different from how movies on demand work, except that with SDV, multiple boxes can watch a stream.
Bzzzzzzzzt, nice try, its well known Kari prefers low slashdot user IDs, mister seven digits.
Hmm... that would be a great mythbusters episode.
So that's what kids' science education is boiling down to? Standing still and holding a mirror?
I suppose if they turned it into an analysis of ADHD medication tested by trying to hold a mirror still...
Given production to air delay, she could already be home nursing.
Anyone heard of any nursing myths? Maybe we can make some up? No idea how we'll work the mandatory Mythbusters "and now, we blow stuff up" into that episode.
Imagine how much more people would support for their favorite football team (or condemn the opponents) if they could affect the outcome of the game?
Many already think they do. Aside from the delusional, on a very small scale, via purchases of tickets and tee shirts, they do influence the winners, since the wealthiest team usually wins.
Who cares, wheres Kari?
You're also comparing a sample of nearly 100 years against a recent sample. There will be movies from this year that in 50 years will be considered classics.
There is at best a 2 in 3 chance that maybe one movie this year might make it into a "top 100" list. Not necessarily "movies" not necessarily "classics"
No, seriously, can anyone explain to me why some people insist on capitalizing every letter in their e-mails and/or comments? .... I seriously doubt these folks write in all caps when they use a pen (or do they???),
Nobody does CAD/Blueprints in cursive, not by hand and not by CAD. A large segment of the working population had their first interaction with "the computer" via CAD, not necessarily as a drafter but as a reader of what was drafted. So of course ALL "computer stuff" should be done in all caps block letters.
Also the more blue collar the more likely their penmanship is unreadable thus the more likely there is to be a workplace rule that all handwritten communication is to be all block letters / all caps just to simplify.
Why the continuing bother with Caps Lock, SysRq, Scroll Lock, and Break? Does anyone use them?
sysRq aka "print screen" used constantly at work.
Easily half the emails I get have something "alt-prtscrn" then "control-V" into the email. Bonus points if they copy-paste into a "paint" program and draw their comments all over it.
Almost all bug reports, anything even tangentially relating to CAD blueprints, basically anything thats not just plain ole text that is under discussion.
then redo the experiment to see whether they can reproduce the result.
See:
So the bulk of the refutation in the blog posting seems to focus on some procedures
"I keep doing the wrong thing, and getting the wrong result, WTF?"
Very much like the tired old meme that won't die of aluminum found in the brains of Alzheimers patients. Every time they sliced specimens in an aluminum microtome, they detected aluminum in the specimens.
Sun should not be charging for their software.
They can make their money on performances and T-Shirts.
Performing training classes, and perform consultative services. Is / was Sun THE place to go to hire a java consultant code monkey? If not, why not? Imagine if Sun as headhunter could have skimmed just one percent of the salary of every java code monkey out there. I would guess the "owners" of a product could pull in perhaps 10% of the total service market without even trying, imagine 10% of all Java code money salaries. Whom better to buy services from, than the folks whom own it?
T-Shirts with stuff written on them, the true meaning of which being "I paid Sun $3K for tests, books, and classes in exchange for a cert claiming to prove I know how to code in Java". That claim might even be true, all the better. Whom better to teach you than the guys whom own it?
There is also an interesting loophole in the GPL and some other licenses that merely makes it required to distribute source when you DISTRIBUTE binaries. You can invent, plan, architect, design, experiment, test, roll out internally anything you want, and SELL TRAINING AND PRERELEASE DOCS AND CONSULTATIVE SERVICES you just can't distribute a binary without releasing the source to the recipients of the binary. Lets say that 20% of the java code monkeys out there would pay 5% of their salary (almost like union dues?) to learn exactly where java is going six months in advance, putting them six months ahead of their non-paying competitors, perhaps on a NDA or perhaps no NDA for even more money.