Who gives a shit? Microsoft is a sinking ship. Get off while you still can! Use BeOS! or the Commodore 64 OS!
You're all a bunch of fucking pussies anyway.
Pussies.
Go back to your little pussy village before I fucking kill you.
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I always remembered that as the best demonstration of the difference between hardware geeks and software geeks. Software geeks abide by neither the laws of physics nor economics.
Yeah, and if you didn't have some real engineers around to understand and operate within the constraints of those laws, you wouldn't have had that precious 286 on which to compile.
This is a little off-topic, but if you're an EE and you think hardware hacking is "fun", then you're certainly not a typical EE. I work in a huge company full of EE's, and I've never met anyone here that actually cared about tinking with anything electrical (or anything at all really). I think I'm the only EE I know that does.
Agreed. I'm another one of those few. Most of my classmates in school were there to get the grades and then go get some stupid programming job (maybe firmware instead of high level OO code, just to differentiate themselves from the CS majors).
But this trend works for me! It's job security. Someone is going to have to keep building all this crap, and if that's only the three of us, so much the better. We'll have bigger SUV's than all of them!
Maybe your friend should have learned something about EE while he was at Rice. I did, and when I got out in 2002 the smallest offer I got was $50k. My GPA wasn't even that good, but I could demonstrate that I actually *CAN* electrically engineer. I saw the idiots in those classes. Half of them could barely tell you ohm's law. You don't have to know shit about a subject to be able to pass the tests and get a degree. Try learning something and being able to demonstrate your abilities.
Ok, I'll buy that. But "have no particular reason to prefer..." is very different than "push everyone towards..." That's all I'm sayin'.
And I'm also not convinced that "a few million" buyers care. At least half of the user base will probably be happy to keep their xbox 1 for those games. And people like me, who have never owned an xbox, are going to be much more likely to buy one the cheaper it is, not the more out-dated games it can play.
The PS1 owners were happy to know that their existing investment was still useable on the new console.
Their existing investment was also useable on the PS1 they probably still had sitting around. Why spend ANY money on backward compatibility??? In the PS2's case, there was a simple and cheap way to maintain that compatibility, so why not keep it? In the xbox next's case, they're adding all sort of power and fundamentally changing the architecture. It's just not worth extra money to enable this thing to play games made for old hardware, when anyone who already owns those games already owns hardware to play them on!
You're an idiot. Why the fuck would a lack of backward compatibility on the xbox "push everyone to playstation" ???
Obviously the PlayStation3 is not going to play xbox games, so how is it going to solve the problem for someone who wants to play old ass xbox games? The only people who will give a shit about backward compatibility are current xbox owners. And guess what they all have in common... AN XBOX. Besides the PS2, has there ever been a game console in history that was compatibile with previous generation products by the same manufacturer? Certainly not in the modern age of consoles (NES through current).
Get a grip, people. Backward compatibility means nothing except to the dozen morons here who are so stupid they have shitty jobs and can't afford a place to live that is big enough for two game consoles. Besides, who even plays old games once the new console has been out a while? Losers and idiots, that's who.
What century are YOU in? Why not just plug all your consoles and DVD player into your receiver? Sounds like a pretty lame setup you've got there to me.
be realistic, people. This game is 25 years old. You can play it on one of those joysticks you plug directly into your TV that costs $20. Who the HELL is going to pay 50 cents to play this thing. I haven't been in an arcade in a couple years. Does EVERYTHING cost 50 cents? Are there just no quarter games left? Is nostalgia really that powerful? I wasn't old enough to have any quarters the first time around. This is space invaders 25th anniversary and i just had my 24th. Maybe I'm young and dumb. Come on. 50 cents? Anyone?
How else do you explain all the cables that are "TUNED" for the electrons to flow better one way but not the other?
like this: transmission line theory. Ever heard of reflections? Termination? that's how, st00pid. Single-ended terminations. see http://capa1.physics.sunysb.edu/~senior/lincirc.ht ml for details.
The answer to your question is really kind of interesting. I came across it while searching through some japanese documents at the university of Nagasaki.
instead of taking the "multiple-serializing" approach you suggest, you begin by using the output of your first transform filter as a sort of "seed" to feed groups of parallel "second-tier" transform filters. Once you've done that, you can see how it is easy to fan those outputs out and iterate into third or fourth-tier (obviously, that's a LOT of pocket PC's!) transform filters. As the filters each work their way through seed data, they each begin to converge toward (notice i didn't say TO) a solution. You then use what the japanese called a "recompositing Reimann filter" to sort of sift your way from the multi-tiered parallel seed results back into a final solution.
And on top of that, Microsoft just more firmly shoves its fist up the anus of IT every time someone pirates their software, so you're doing more damage than good by pirating their software...
Maybe that's true overall. But I don't work in IT, and frankly I despise those who do. I think they are the grease monkeys of the computer industry. The point is, I really don't care how far MS shoves their "fist up the anus of IT" because it does not affect ME. What does affect ME is getting MS Office for free, which is an all-profit outcome as far as I'm concerned. Let some other sucker pay for it! That's my motto.
In fact, just recently I took some charts a colleague emailed me that they had made in excel, embedded them into an open office document, along with some other advanced content, saved it as a.doc and sent it on to my super. They never knew I didn't use MS Office.
Oh, they knew alright. They've had their eye on you and your rogue, pirated, "h4X0r" software for a while now.
I just hope this little outburst of yours goes unnoticed, for your own sake. Personally, I think you should be fired.
You need MS Office. You can't operate a home computer without basic functionality and communication with all your friends and collegaues who ALL USE OFFICE.
but being still more realistic, who ever PAYS for MS software anymore? just borrow a CD from a friend and find a registration number on Surfer's serialz or something. I mean come on.
really, that's about all of it. Everything else comes with windows.
I used BBS chatting software in 1989 that allowed me to know when the other user was typing.
I spent a year working for patent attourneys. What did I learn? If I ever go rogue and start taking out government buildings, the patent office is first on my list.
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Who gives a shit? Microsoft is a sinking ship. Get off while you still can! Use BeOS! or the Commodore 64 OS! You're all a bunch of fucking pussies anyway. Pussies. Go back to your little pussy village before I fucking kill you.
Yeah, and if you didn't have some real engineers around to understand and operate within the constraints of those laws, you wouldn't have had that precious 286 on which to compile.
Agreed. I'm another one of those few. Most of my classmates in school were there to get the grades and then go get some stupid programming job (maybe firmware instead of high level OO code, just to differentiate themselves from the CS majors).
But this trend works for me! It's job security. Someone is going to have to keep building all this crap, and if that's only the three of us, so much the better. We'll have bigger SUV's than all of them!
Maybe your friend should have learned something about EE while he was at Rice. I did, and when I got out in 2002 the smallest offer I got was $50k. My GPA wasn't even that good, but I could demonstrate that I actually *CAN* electrically engineer. I saw the idiots in those classes. Half of them could barely tell you ohm's law. You don't have to know shit about a subject to be able to pass the tests and get a degree. Try learning something and being able to demonstrate your abilities.
And I'm also not convinced that "a few million" buyers care. At least half of the user base will probably be happy to keep their xbox 1 for those games. And people like me, who have never owned an xbox, are going to be much more likely to buy one the cheaper it is, not the more out-dated games it can play.
Jesus christ dude. Get a job, spend $20, and buy GranTurismo3. PLEASE don't give me some crap about "they don't make them like they used to."
Jesus christ dude.
Their existing investment was also useable on the PS1 they probably still had sitting around. Why spend ANY money on backward compatibility??? In the PS2's case, there was a simple and cheap way to maintain that compatibility, so why not keep it? In the xbox next's case, they're adding all sort of power and fundamentally changing the architecture. It's just not worth extra money to enable this thing to play games made for old hardware, when anyone who already owns those games already owns hardware to play them on!
Obviously the PlayStation3 is not going to play xbox games, so how is it going to solve the problem for someone who wants to play old ass xbox games? The only people who will give a shit about backward compatibility are current xbox owners. And guess what they all have in common... AN XBOX. Besides the PS2, has there ever been a game console in history that was compatibile with previous generation products by the same manufacturer? Certainly not in the modern age of consoles (NES through current).
Get a grip, people. Backward compatibility means nothing except to the dozen morons here who are so stupid they have shitty jobs and can't afford a place to live that is big enough for two game consoles. Besides, who even plays old games once the new console has been out a while? Losers and idiots, that's who.
What century are YOU in? Why not just plug all your consoles and DVD player into your receiver? Sounds like a pretty lame setup you've got there to me.
be realistic, people. This game is 25 years old. You can play it on one of those joysticks you plug directly into your TV that costs $20. Who the HELL is going to pay 50 cents to play this thing. I haven't been in an arcade in a couple years. Does EVERYTHING cost 50 cents? Are there just no quarter games left? Is nostalgia really that powerful? I wasn't old enough to have any quarters the first time around. This is space invaders 25th anniversary and i just had my 24th. Maybe I'm young and dumb. Come on. 50 cents? Anyone?
like this: transmission line theory. Ever heard of reflections? Termination? that's how, st00pid. Single-ended terminations. see http://capa1.physics.sunysb.edu/~senior/lincirc.ht ml for details.
instead of taking the "multiple-serializing" approach you suggest, you begin by using the output of your first transform filter as a sort of "seed" to feed groups of parallel "second-tier" transform filters. Once you've done that, you can see how it is easy to fan those outputs out and iterate into third or fourth-tier (obviously, that's a LOT of pocket PC's!) transform filters. As the filters each work their way through seed data, they each begin to converge toward (notice i didn't say TO) a solution. You then use what the japanese called a "recompositing Reimann filter" to sort of sift your way from the multi-tiered parallel seed results back into a final solution.
It's very elegant, IMHO.
Maybe that's true overall. But I don't work in IT, and frankly I despise those who do. I think they are the grease monkeys of the computer industry. The point is, I really don't care how far MS shoves their "fist up the anus of IT" because it does not affect ME. What does affect ME is getting MS Office for free, which is an all-profit outcome as far as I'm concerned. Let some other sucker pay for it! That's my motto.
Oh, they knew alright. They've had their eye on you and your rogue, pirated, "h4X0r" software for a while now.
I just hope this little outburst of yours goes unnoticed, for your own sake. Personally, I think you should be fired.
but being still more realistic, who ever PAYS for MS software anymore? just borrow a CD from a friend and find a registration number on Surfer's serialz or something. I mean come on.
really, that's about all of it. Everything else comes with windows.
I spent a year working for patent attourneys. What did I learn? If I ever go rogue and start taking out government buildings, the patent office is first on my list.
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