I thought the whole point of the Wii was that you could play multiplayer games with other people that are actually in the room. It doesn't matter to everyone else in the room if I can play 40 other people in a game online, if they have to just sit there and watch.
If anything can be shown from past console releases... once a single company has momentum(Atari, NES, SNES, PSX, GBA, PS2, DS) they typically own that generation. I think it was the Sega Genesis that somewhat challenged the SNES, but for the most part... everyone owned a SNES.
Yeah, except that the Turbografx was released first, the Genesis second, and the SNES last (over two years later than the others) - exactly opposite of where the generation ended up.
the reason why the PS3 is failing: It costs a lot more than the 360, but doesn't really offer anything to justify the price.
Well, the fact that the 360 costs $50/year for online play (meaning it'll end up being even more expensive than the PS3) was enough to justify it to me.
Then they should have advertisers sponsor the bandwidth. Do advertisers generally pay up front for advertising on web pages? I know that bandwidth providers generally charge up front. So, unless you know how many people are going to watch the video beforehand, it's a pretty bad idea. Besides, nobody would have watched this video if they hadn't gotten sued to begin with, and who's going to advertise on that?
Is downloading via torrent more of a pain in the ass than not being able to download the video at all? No, but it's more of a pain in the ass than watching it on Youtube, which is probably why that is where it was.
Well, for applications without a lot of complexity, yes. If you're writing code in assembly, it's all you have to worry about. Writing in a high level language, you have to worry about every intermediate tool in the chain that gets from high level language to machine code.
where as if you are writing a heart monitor, readability and ease to debug problems may be more critical. The brain can live without blood for 4 6 minutes, a few less instructions will buy you nothing, and if it did, youd probably end up being a vegetable anyway. Maybe they should write that kind of stuff in Cobol to bring down health care costs.
You still want the heart monitor to be reliable. It seems like the less layers of abstraction between the user interface and the hardware would help in this regard, just by minimizing the number of things that can go wrong.
I hadn't really thought about it in this way, but really, that's the most important reason to learn assembly language. Even if you never actually "use" it, or you learn it for an architecture that you end up not working on (doesn't Knuth have some sort of artificial assembly language).
Knowing how assembly works helps you think of how code should be written in higher-level languages. Not just how to write a program that does what you want it to, but how to write it in the most intelligible way for the computer, not just you.
The kernel itself is stable. The OS is not. The problem isn't between the screen and the keyboard, it's between the kernel and the screen. The kernel may still be running, but if the only way you can do anything is through a remote terminal... the kernel isn't crashed, but the OS is.
The governor did not believe that the man's behavior was actually criminal.
Are you kidding me? The guy turned water into wine, fed thousands with one loaf of bread, and cured the sick by laying his hands on them.
He was STEALING from the wine industry, the baking industry, AND the medical industry! He should have been tortured to death at LEAST three times!
--- As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a quiet place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some CD's."
Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to listen to."
"We have here only five CD's and two DVD's," they answered.
"Bring them here to me," he said. And he directed the people to check the tracker site. Taking the five CD's and the two DVD's and copying them to disk, he gave thanks and started the tracker. Then he gave the torrent links to the tracker site, and the tracker site gave them to the people. They all listened and were satisfied, and the tracker site picked up twelve gigs of new mp3's that were added by the people. The number of those who ate was about five million men, besides women and children. ---
Well, I work in a university lab doing pharmaceutical research. It's one thing to do the sort of basic research to develop an active molecule, it's a completely different thing to bring a formulation to market. Just be glad that drugs are covered under patent instead of copyright, in which case aspirin would cost $10 a pill.
Arcnet and token ring aren't obsolete, they're just limited to applications where reliability and timing are important. Which, oddly enough, also happens to be the exact situation where you'd want to use Linux (well, RTlinux, anyway), and have a modifiable kernel.
I don't think anybody (individuals) should feel bad about pirating business software. It's intended for business, and priced accordingly. It only helps the producers of the software to have individuals who know how to use it available on the job market. It's not like the game market, which depends on individual purchases - if the businesses buy it, there's no reason for individuals to.
Well, first of all, you can buy a handheld, brand new, professionally built Raman spectrometer for less than $10K.
All it is, is a laser and a camera. You shine the laser on the sample, and measure the light intensity from a right angle. It is a small feat. Very small.
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I thought the whole point of the Wii was that you could play multiplayer games with other people that are actually in the room. It doesn't matter to everyone else in the room if I can play 40 other people in a game online, if they have to just sit there and watch.
I don't know anybody with an interest in the PS3.
Have you asked anyone with a decent HD set? If you have one, the PS3 is a better deal than the 360 because of the Bluray.
Then again, after a month of trying to get one, I gave up the Wii and bought a PS3 instead.
I'd much rather have Casino Royale than that STUPID Talladega Nights movie.
Besides, why are they packing a video game console with movies anyway?
They've been available for the taking on amazon for at least a week...
Where do people keep getting this idea that nobody has an HD set?
If anything can be shown from past console releases... once a single company has momentum(Atari, NES, SNES, PSX, GBA, PS2, DS) they typically own that generation. I think it was the Sega Genesis that somewhat challenged the SNES, but for the most part... everyone owned a SNES.
Yeah, except that the Turbografx was released first, the Genesis second, and the SNES last (over two years later than the others) - exactly opposite of where the generation ended up.
the reason why the PS3 is failing: It costs a lot more than the 360, but doesn't really offer anything to justify the price.
Well, the fact that the 360 costs $50/year for online play (meaning it'll end up being even more expensive than the PS3) was enough to justify it to me.
Maybe they might want people to actually watch the video. Downloading via torrent is a pain in the ass.
Well, for applications without a lot of complexity, yes. If you're writing code in assembly, it's all you have to worry about. Writing in a high level language, you have to worry about every intermediate tool in the chain that gets from high level language to machine code.
where as if you are writing a heart monitor, readability and ease to debug problems may be more critical. The brain can live without blood for 4 6 minutes, a few less instructions will buy you nothing, and if it did, youd probably end up being a vegetable anyway. Maybe they should write that kind of stuff in Cobol to bring down health care costs.
You still want the heart monitor to be reliable. It seems like the less layers of abstraction between the user interface and the hardware would help in this regard, just by minimizing the number of things that can go wrong.
mod parent up.
I hadn't really thought about it in this way, but really, that's the most important reason to learn assembly language. Even if you never actually "use" it, or you learn it for an architecture that you end up not working on (doesn't Knuth have some sort of artificial assembly language).
Knowing how assembly works helps you think of how code should be written in higher-level languages. Not just how to write a program that does what you want it to, but how to write it in the most intelligible way for the computer, not just you.
0% scored higher (more computer geeky),
0% scored the same, and
100% scored lower (less geeky).
What does this mean? Your computer geekiness is:
Step aside Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Steve Jobs... You are by far the SUPREME COMPUTER GOD!!!
I dunno. I did all the work, wrote the paper, sent it in, got paid nothing, and now the publisher charges me to read it.
The kernel itself is stable. The OS is not. The problem isn't between the screen and the keyboard, it's between the kernel and the screen. The kernel may still be running, but if the only way you can do anything is through a remote terminal... the kernel isn't crashed, but the OS is.
I'm not even counting having to restart explorer.
The governor did not believe that the man's behavior was actually criminal.
Are you kidding me? The guy turned water into wine, fed thousands with one loaf of bread, and cured the sick by laying his hands on them.
He was STEALING from the wine industry, the baking industry, AND the medical industry! He should have been tortured to death at LEAST three times!
---
As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a quiet place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some CD's."
Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to listen to."
"We have here only five CD's and two DVD's," they answered.
"Bring them here to me," he said. And he directed the people to check the tracker site. Taking the five CD's and the two DVD's and copying them to disk, he gave thanks and started the tracker. Then he gave the torrent links to the tracker site, and the tracker site gave them to the people. They all listened and were satisfied, and the tracker site picked up twelve gigs of new mp3's that were added by the people. The number of those who ate was about five million men, besides women and children.
---
Well, I work in a university lab doing pharmaceutical research. It's one thing to do the sort of basic research to develop an active molecule, it's a completely different thing to bring a formulation to market. Just be glad that drugs are covered under patent instead of copyright, in which case aspirin would cost $10 a pill.
Where I work we have a 400000 lines VAX-FORTRAN software that we are struggling to migrate.
Yeah. And, I bet that when those 400,000 lines of code were written, the idea of DEC folding was about as plausible as the idea of Microsoft folding.
Arcnet and token ring aren't obsolete, they're just limited to applications where reliability and timing are important. Which, oddly enough, also happens to be the exact situation where you'd want to use Linux (well, RTlinux, anyway), and have a modifiable kernel.
I don't think anybody (individuals) should feel bad about pirating business software. It's intended for business, and priced accordingly. It only helps the producers of the software to have individuals who know how to use it available on the job market. It's not like the game market, which depends on individual purchases - if the businesses buy it, there's no reason for individuals to.
Yeah, they list it for £179.99, right above "Available New & Used from £399.00"
No.
Maybe if you couldn't already buy a handheld Raman spectrometer for less than $10K.
Well, first of all, you can buy a handheld, brand new, professionally built Raman spectrometer for less than $10K.
All it is, is a laser and a camera. You shine the laser on the sample, and measure the light intensity from a right angle. It is a small feat. Very small.