At any rate, Sony never actually sold the original PlayStation as "PSX." At worst they're co-opting popular slang.
Yes they did! You obviously weren't a console fan, otherwise you would have bought or at least read magazines at the time to get the latest information.
The ad campaign for the Playstation was explicitly called by the name "PSX". Editors followed the branding and called it PSX in the previews and reviews. If it's slang, than it was slang created by Sony, not the fans.
The TV commercials -- which came after the initial PSX branding campaign -- ended up dropping the acronym and called it just "playstation", using Minekawa Takako's voice.
Uhm, their server handled trailer downloads and hits during Super Bowl. They've transferred more information than you'd be able to download in several life times, all within a day. I don't remember how much exactly, just know it was in a huge amount of terabytes -- their archive page is messed up where they first stated their bandwidth usage.
Wow, that never released trailer is quite stylish. Wonder why it wasn't released? Well, I guess it does seem to give away a lot of the action.
The final trailers for Revolutions pretty much gave away everything, though. So, meh.
One thing I've never understood is the rage over football (both), basketball, etc... Why the hell would I watch people play something I could be doing myself?
However, I listen to the Team Sportscast Network when I'm bored, and also hang out in #tsn. I like it there because it's a community that PLAYS what they love, not just listen. People who know the game first hand; a relaxed community which knows the pros personally.
I find watching games more interesting than conventional sports because the game is always changing -- they aren't limited by real life physics and laws. The rules and gameplay are always evolving overtime.
Although rules change with videogames, i find game rules to be much more appealing. Sports that require referees take away from the game, along with judged sports. The computer counts and grades players in VGs, not some dude with a whistle. If anything, I find videogames to be a more relevant sport than games that rely on referees for fundamental parts of the game such as "foul balls", "penalties" and "strikes".
In the end though, I don't really want videogames to become mainstream sports -- it'll just end up controlled and abused like the rest of the sports. Don't get me wrong, I like tournaments, and I also want the very best players making enough for a living. What I don't look forward to is gamers becoming commercialized, overglorified, cocky jerks (it's partially there already) like other other sports "heros".
The fact that batteries are a third party hack is BS. People shouldn't have to unscrew the ipod just to change a battery.
Besides, other systems allow you to recharge one battery on a dock, while you're using a different one in your player... Why should I be limited to one battery (unless I like unscrewing it every damn time).
There used to be a sense of connection with other people after watching a popular show. I could talk about a show with my friends at school -- but rarely can we all actively do the same thing at the same time anymore (such as watch the same shows). This is compounded by the fact we've seen it all, and the stuff we haven't seen is just something better experienced on our own.
TV just isn't exciting. I can see how hard they're trying to make it exciting by using shock value -- it won't help in the end. I don't care what other stupid actors/actresses and common blow joe on reality TV is doing. These people are idiots, why should I try to live my life through these idiots?
I'd rather play a game than watch TV. At least I'm taking charge of my interaction. I can also talk to other people while doing it. I can IM my friends and hook up a game whenever we have the time.
I never understood why people watch sports. Why watch basketball when I can play basketball? But it goes even further with videogames. We can participate in things we can't do in real life; whether it's using magic in an RPG, racing a car in a simulation, or doing a rocket jump in an FPS. We can express our laughs and frustration througha quick text message.
In order for me to consider watching TV again, TV needs to supply images and information I can't get online. It needs to provide entertainment beyond the mindless reused crap on air currently. TV is not tailored like the internet. Having 100 channels of commericials is not what I want to spend my time on. Fitting my schedule around a show that actually has some meaning is something I could have most likely read on the internet.
There used to be a connection with TV, and it's pretty much dead. TV is my last resort in how I spend my time. I don't own a TV or listen to the radio -- after using the internet, they both seem to be just drawing me further away from the connection I want to have to information and my friends.
If someday the internet was to vanish, there would always be a good book and a telephone.
Brute force is taking all the possible combinations (e.g. all the base pair combinations in DNA) and test them *once*.
Brute forcing doesn't have to test all cases. It tests to find answers to cases, not EVERYTHING. When you find an answer, you stop the testing.
Plus your idea that mother nature repeats test cases is false. Every human generation is unique. Even when twins are born, the twins will reproduce with two different people creating another expansive tree. Even then, twins have subtle mutations in their DNA, along with small differences in societal status, evironiment. No matter what you'll never end up with the same test case again.
Most combinations are never ever tested.
That's because the combinations are infinite. Just because a tree is infinite does NOT mean we can't brute force to find the answers we are looking for.
Mother nature (math) has brute forced her way to us. It was testing for cases of survival. Whether or not we are superior is not the point of survival. We survived, therefore we are the best case so far.
If an intelligent life form made out of steel can't survive, than obviously it has failed the test case, even if it better than us by our standards.
and the selection is not deterministic (that is, the "best" individual can e.g. die by chance)
Yeah, so sh* happens because we think it's sh*. If a genius and healthy man dies from getting hit with an SUV, it might seem unfair to us. In the society we live in, the "world" is filled with cars -- whether one can survive within that world becomes a new test case.
There can also be several "answers", which lies truth to a degree which our human mind will accept.
Getting lucky or just plain selling your soul to get kids to buy your horrible record -- well, that shouldn't even be an industry.
People argue that the industry will die without ripping off people... well, that's plain BS. Like the parent posted, an industry survives on using new technology that people are not able to reproduce themselves.
Sticking with 18 dollar CDs is like sticking with overpriced vinyl lps and casettes. The technology has a use, but trying to sell outdated technology for tremendous amounts of money has passed. Why don't they try to offer something new so they actually produce more technology instead of milking something 20 years old?
The recording industry could survive off of billions of electronic song payments instead of forcing people to buy millions of overpriced CDs. Perhaps record stores could become burning shops where they'll burn very high quality individual recording tracks themselves in wav format (ie the guitar and voices on seperate highqual wavs) onto a dvd, and the compressed mp3 version will be given with it on a normal CD -- you get to personally choose which songs to add to your discs and only pay per song.
Paying 18 dollars just to listen to one song I like from a whole CD is superfluous. Paying 10 dollars to get highqual split tracks from a song so I can create my own remixes would be awesome.
Consumers have passed up RIAA in technology. So what exactly are they doing with all those millions? Why can't they think of anything better than suing families?
All Microsoft smartphones can sync with your computer (Outlook). You can definitely do daily scheduling on a MS smartphone.
When it isn't crashing, that is. My casio PDA had Win CE. Too bad the thing always crashed -- FUBARing all the saved files and databased numbers I had on there with it. Maybe they changed and are more reliable now, but screw them, they don't deserve another dime after wasting my PDA with their software.
In the impossible chance a being finds a picture of caveman figures on a probe, they probably wouldn't be able to understand it, let alone somethign even more complicated.
At least they have the right idea and used a plaque. If they had used a normal image, aliens probably wouldn't see it at all, depending on the chances of them seeing in the same spectrum of colors that we see. Even more likely, as stated by parent, their pattern recognition would be different etc., etc. There's millions of reasons that it wouldn't really matter what you put on there.
Then they changed his time slot so it was during school hours. I guess they thought unemployed people would enjoy the show more than gradeschoolers. For a latchkey kid like me, it was shows put on by people like Bill that got me interested in science, along with my science inclined uncle.
As for the sundial, I'm not exactly wetting myself, but it's not as stupid as other posters are making it out to be. If you're gonna do something trivial like color correction, you might as well spice it up and do it nerd style.
Even though there are million of rocks floating in the general area from Earth to the moon, the chances of a small probe hitting a large enough chunk would be close to nothing.
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The McDonald's Hot Apple (American) Pie thing has been done already. In fact they actually placed their ad in McDonald's drive-thru menus.
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Yes they did! You obviously weren't a console fan, otherwise you would have bought or at least read magazines at the time to get the latest information.
The ad campaign for the Playstation was explicitly called by the name "PSX". Editors followed the branding and called it PSX in the previews and reviews. If it's slang, than it was slang created by Sony, not the fans.
The TV commercials -- which came after the initial PSX branding campaign -- ended up dropping the acronym and called it just "playstation", using Minekawa Takako's voice.
Uhm, their server handled trailer downloads and hits during Super Bowl.
They've transferred more information than you'd be able to download in several life times, all within a day.
I don't remember how much exactly, just know it was in a huge amount of terabytes -- their archive page is messed up where they first stated their bandwidth usage.
Wow, that never released trailer is quite stylish. Wonder why it wasn't released? Well, I guess it does seem to give away a lot of the action. The final trailers for Revolutions pretty much gave away everything, though. So, meh.
Halo and FFXI work great with keyboards and mice. GTA III, Vice City, and halo are more true to their genre on the PC.
Wow, giving a few percent of your income to charity while still maintaining dozens of billions of dollars! Wow, that makes him hell of a human being!
Those aren't the workers he's talking about. u r teh genus!
He meant it was hard to get into the country itself, as in NZ, not nature.
Comparing works of art, such as a movie and music, to a football game is asinine. I'd rather watch figure skating than ice hockey.
Masturbation is an interactive sport.
One thing I've never understood is the rage over football (both), basketball, etc... Why the hell would I watch people play something I could be doing myself?
However, I listen to the Team Sportscast Network when I'm bored, and also hang out in #tsn. I like it there because it's a community that PLAYS what they love, not just listen. People who know the game first hand; a relaxed community which knows the pros personally.
I find watching games more interesting than conventional sports because the game is always changing -- they aren't limited by real life physics and laws. The rules and gameplay are always evolving overtime.
Although rules change with videogames, i find game rules to be much more appealing. Sports that require referees take away from the game, along with judged sports. The computer counts and grades players in VGs, not some dude with a whistle. If anything, I find videogames to be a more relevant sport than games that rely on referees for fundamental parts of the game such as "foul balls", "penalties" and "strikes".
In the end though, I don't really want videogames to become mainstream sports -- it'll just end up controlled and abused like the rest of the sports. Don't get me wrong, I like tournaments, and I also want the very best players making enough for a living. What I don't look forward to is gamers becoming commercialized, overglorified, cocky jerks (it's partially there already) like other other sports "heros".
The fact that batteries are a third party hack is BS. People shouldn't have to unscrew the ipod just to change a battery.
Besides, other systems allow you to recharge one battery on a dock, while you're using a different one in your player... Why should I be limited to one battery (unless I like unscrewing it every damn time).
There used to be a sense of connection with other people after watching a popular show. I could talk about a show with my friends at school -- but rarely can we all actively do the same thing at the same time anymore (such as watch the same shows). This is compounded by the fact we've seen it all, and the stuff we haven't seen is just something better experienced on our own.
TV just isn't exciting. I can see how hard they're trying to make it exciting by using shock value -- it won't help in the end. I don't care what other stupid actors/actresses and common blow joe on reality TV is doing. These people are idiots, why should I try to live my life through these idiots?
I'd rather play a game than watch TV. At least I'm taking charge of my interaction. I can also talk to other people while doing it. I can IM my friends and hook up a game whenever we have the time.
I never understood why people watch sports. Why watch basketball when I can play basketball? But it goes even further with videogames. We can participate in things we can't do in real life; whether it's using magic in an RPG, racing a car in a simulation, or doing a rocket jump in an FPS. We can express our laughs and frustration througha quick text message.
In order for me to consider watching TV again, TV needs to supply images and information I can't get online. It needs to provide entertainment beyond the mindless reused crap on air currently. TV is not tailored like the internet. Having 100 channels of commericials is not what I want to spend my time on. Fitting my schedule around a show that actually has some meaning is something I could have most likely read on the internet.
There used to be a connection with TV, and it's pretty much dead. TV is my last resort in how I spend my time. I don't own a TV or listen to the radio -- after using the internet, they both seem to be just drawing me further away from the connection I want to have to information and my friends.
If someday the internet was to vanish, there would always be a good book and a telephone.
Plus your idea that mother nature repeats test cases is false. Every human generation is unique. Even when twins are born, the twins will reproduce with two different people creating another expansive tree. Even then, twins have subtle mutations in their DNA, along with small differences in societal status, evironiment. No matter what you'll never end up with the same test case again.That's because the combinations are infinite. Just because a tree is infinite does NOT mean we can't brute force to find the answers we are looking for.
Mother nature (math) has brute forced her way to us. It was testing for cases of survival. Whether or not we are superior is not the point of survival. We survived, therefore we are the best case so far.
If an intelligent life form made out of steel can't survive, than obviously it has failed the test case, even if it better than us by our standards.Yeah, so sh* happens because we think it's sh*. If a genius and healthy man dies from getting hit with an SUV, it might seem unfair to us. In the society we live in, the "world" is filled with cars -- whether one can survive within that world becomes a new test case.
There can also be several "answers", which lies truth to a degree which our human mind will accept.
Amen.
Getting lucky or just plain selling your soul to get kids to buy your horrible record -- well, that shouldn't even be an industry.
People argue that the industry will die without ripping off people... well, that's plain BS. Like the parent posted, an industry survives on using new technology that people are not able to reproduce themselves.
Sticking with 18 dollar CDs is like sticking with overpriced vinyl lps and casettes. The technology has a use, but trying to sell outdated technology for tremendous amounts of money has passed. Why don't they try to offer something new so they actually produce more technology instead of milking something 20 years old?
The recording industry could survive off of billions of electronic song payments instead of forcing people to buy millions of overpriced CDs. Perhaps record stores could become burning shops where they'll burn very high quality individual recording tracks themselves in wav format (ie the guitar and voices on seperate highqual wavs) onto a dvd, and the compressed mp3 version will be given with it on a normal CD -- you get to personally choose which songs to add to your discs and only pay per song.
Paying 18 dollars just to listen to one song I like from a whole CD is superfluous. Paying 10 dollars to get highqual split tracks from a song so I can create my own remixes would be awesome.
Consumers have passed up RIAA in technology. So what exactly are they doing with all those millions? Why can't they think of anything better than suing families?
The Yamato cannon is named after a Japanese battleship (one of the largest) that fought during WWII.
Yeah, cause after saving important notes, i carry a desktop computer in my pants to sync with my PDA.
dictionary.com:
Jap ( P ) Pronunciation Key (jp)
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a person of Japanese birth or descent.
Aussie is not a race or ethnicity dumbass.
I'd like to take the time to kill this joke by saying it's silicone, not silicon.
Thank you and goodnight.
I agree on some level.
In the impossible chance a being finds a picture of caveman figures on a probe, they probably wouldn't be able to understand it, let alone somethign even more complicated.
At least they have the right idea and used a plaque. If they had used a normal image, aliens probably wouldn't see it at all, depending on the chances of them seeing in the same spectrum of colors that we see. Even more likely, as stated by parent, their pattern recognition would be different etc., etc. There's millions of reasons that it wouldn't really matter what you put on there.
I consider it more of a inside joke for humans.
Then they changed his time slot so it was during school hours. I guess they thought unemployed people would enjoy the show more than gradeschoolers. For a latchkey kid like me, it was shows put on by people like Bill that got me interested in science, along with my science inclined uncle.
As for the sundial, I'm not exactly wetting myself, but it's not as stupid as other posters are making it out to be. If you're gonna do something trivial like color correction, you might as well spice it up and do it nerd style.
Even though there are million of rocks floating in the general area from Earth to the moon, the chances of a small probe hitting a large enough chunk would be close to nothing.
Space is large with very little inbetween.
He was calling his own post a troll, not the parent's post. Yeesh. Read closely, and learn what sarcasm is.