Is it common to get the digital signal easier than the analog one? I live about 60 to 100 miles away from where my over-the-air boradcasts are coming from. I've been using an indoor boosted antennae (some RCA job from Wal-Mart) with moderate success. I've been eyeing something similar to the SIR-T451 but don't want to blow a wad of money and then not get any signal.
It's a great idea. The site can just downright lie about the opponent and the challenger can just deny any responsibility since they didn't put those lies there to begin with (at least not in any provable way).
"People equate cost with quality (usually incorrectly), and as such cheaper games will often sell less overall."
This reminds me of a client I used to have. He was running an insurance program for temp nurses who do not get health care for the hospitals they work for or their temp agency. The policy wasn't a great one but it was cheap enough that if anything catastrophic happened, they wouldn't be up the creek. Nobody was interested. He then took the exact same policy and charged 15% more for it and it sold like hotcakes. And these are nurses. You'd think they'd be able to read what health coverage they're getting a little bit better than the average joe.
With a project this expensive it's probably better to get some real arcade parts off of eBay or somewhere like Happ Controls and wire them up to encoders for various PCs, consoles, etc using DB-9/15/25/etc connectors (or even Molex if you're into that sort of thing). That way you only have to swap encoders instead of building a new seat each time. Modularity can save hundreds of dollars here even if you have to resort to buying a steering wheel for each console and hacking an arcade steering wheel's inputs to the console's inputs.
I know the publisher, but their football game is very good. For at least 3 or 4 years now, it hasn't been the same game each year. The engine has improved to the point that it's worth the new engine and not just the roster updates. The standard/. reply is that it's missing features from last year, but those features are NOT part of the football engine and are not missed by people who are only interested in using it to play football (which is what the game is designed for). I like originality but I plan on buying the new football titles yearly as long as they can keep it interesting. I do miss the "other" publisher who lost out on the NFL rights though. Their game was better IMHO.
Can't even get through a Q&A without a dupe? Why is question 1 repeated in question 4? I realize they're not exactly the same but the information we get from 1 is the same as what we get from 4 and it should've been pretty obvious that would be the case.
So does that mean that the rest of the world doesn't care about Pro Halo except for Canada who has a pro version of the game that has a few different rules mostly regarding player substitution and level size and is mostly ignored by fans of the US version of Halo?
Nothing serious. GRUB doesn't have to be reloaded each time you add or take away a kernel. It's only a 5 second procedure in LILO (or 2-3 minutes if you have to manually monkey with the lilo.conf file). Personally, I prefer LILO for working with kernels because I touch the lilo.conf file each time a kernel is compiled. It makes it easier for me to weed out possible boot-loading problems when I'm making changes to kernel code.
As others here have pointed out, if you monkey a lot with multiple *NIX kernels, GRUB is a bit easier to use. For those of us who don't do that sort of thing, there really isn't much of a difference.
I like the additional accessory angle. That could acutally work if a Google PC can target and overcome the weaknesses in the current iterations of Windows. XP Media Center is nice, but it's only been around for a year or two. People are holding onto machines a lot longer than they used to. Also, Media Center is usually only available on upper tier units. If Google can put a $200 PC out there that's good at DVR functions, can play videos from different sources, and can do some general PC functions, it could be a viable system. Especially if it played nice with the other computer at home by way of file sharing.
I haven't been disappointed with the portions of the 3D Sonic that actually involve Sonic. Tails, Knuckles, etc haven't really done much for me in 2D or in 3D. I'd like to see a Sonic game that is actually about Sonic the Hedgehog and doesn't have Knuckles, Tails, Shadow, Team Dark, Team Kissyfur, etc trying to steal the show. This isn't a cartoon. It's a platformer. More characters don't tend to add more depth here. They just tend to muddy the waters.
Having a life? Sounds like you either don't have kids or didn't get that young single lifestyle out of your system before you did. When I had my first child, I was a person who spent a lot of time away from home. I went out frequently to bars, malls, etc. When my daughter was born, I quickly lost interest in the bars and I tended to spend a lot less time at malls. The time I did spend at malls was spend mostly at toy stores, book stores, and Chuck E Cheese. I still interact with adults on a regular basis but I spend the majority of my free time interacting with my children. Having kids isn't about being tied down. There are plenty of sitters. It's about spending time as a family.
A lot of families do have better things to do than going on the internet, but they have things they need to get done and the internet is the most convenient way to do a lot of those things.
So a guy who hangs out waiting to shoot down ideas from some dude on an internet message board decides to just chuck a valid argument because surely the automakers thought of that. Is that why the early Ford Focus steering wheels had a tendency to detach themselves from the steering column? Surely the automakers realized the driver would need that steering wheel. Or for a technology-based one, how about that Hyundai Elantra that has the auto-sensing airbag deployment for the front seat? That's a good idea. Too bad it didn't occur to the design engineers that sometimes the weight of the baby and the car seat can exceed 50 pounds. That'll throw off the system and incorrectly deploy the air bag in some cases.
Unfortunately, cars are dangerous enough and used often enough that even a solution that works 99.9% of the time is inadequate. It'll take a lot of convincing to get me to turn over the controls of my vehicle to a system that is given such a simplified explanation behind it.
That's not a very good solution for this application. The Nissan car here (if it's the same one I read about elsewhere) doesn't steer for you. It just "corrects" your steering if you veer off to one side. I'd rather the car not interfere with my driving at all than steer me into a ditch because I can figure out which lines really constitute a lane and the computer can't.
There's a LOT less to worry about when a plane is in the air flying. I don't know a pilot alive who would autopilot through anything more than mild turbulence. Autopilot also doesn't take off and land for you. It's closest equivalent in the automotive world is cruise control. Cruise control would be just as good as autopilot if the vehicle didn't have to worry about other vehicles on a regular basis and had a lane to work with that was as straight as typical airplane headings.
"4. Lane-Departure Prevention Nissan has a prototype that uses cameras and software to detect white lines and reflective markers. If the system determines the vehicle is drifting, it will steer the car back into the proper lane."
I've driven enough roads under construction that I would be seriously afraid that my car would steer me into oncoming traffic because road workers haven't bothered to paint over lines that were previously there.
Personally, I'd be interested in how these vehicles do: 1. On regular highways. 2. At speeds other than the 5 to 25 MPH tested.
I realize they're not built for that. I would just like to see how they do applying what they "learned" in the desert to real traffic situations.
A good university isn't going to teach you a language. They're going to teach you how to be a good programmer and how to apply good scientific methodology to software design. If you get your degree and still can't understand how to easily pick up a language from scanning a book or two and maybe talking to someone who already knows the language, then your university has failed you.
Universities teach mostly Java right now because Java uses a C style syntax. Java forces some things like OOP and exception handling. Java's built-in APIs make it easier for students to build projects without worrying about what libraries to use, system incompatibilities, and that sort of thing. Java's kitchen sink API lets instructors ignore things like build environments and focus on the topic at hand.
...but this is the same thing two-bit Asian electronics companies have been pushing for a while now. It's just in prettier packaging. The one I have now (that I bought at the mall after talking the guy down from $50 to $15) looks a bit silly with it's cartridge slot being almost flush with the top of the unit, but I'll bet underneath the same ship makes both tick.
From the parent's link, a post by a Nuby employee: "I had a feeling there would be issues with this in the hardcore community, but it's more geared towards a casual gamer."
Riiiiiiiight. A casual gamer is going to spend $50+ on an NES when they can get a GC for $60, a PS2 for $120, or a wide variety of controller-to-TV games for $10-$20. If Messiah and Nuby really think that, then their console is dead in the water. Judging by the compatibility list, this thing IS just like the other NES clones that have been around for a few years.
Maybe because OpenOffice's main goal isn't to replace MS Office but to be the best office product available? It's open source software. There's no worries about going out of business or posting profits or anything of that nature. They don't have to compete with MS. They just have to compete with themselves. If the people who are working on this project don't feel like spending every waking moment tracking every little nuance of the MS Office file formats, I can't blame them.
Open source isn't about some anti-MS BS. It's about being able to do what you want to with your software. If you don't like this particular product or how it works, you are free to make the changes you would like to it. Does OO not handle something about the MS file format the way you would like? Then fix it.
In my workplace most documents that we send out that were formerly Word docs are now PDFs (and our one client who actually wants it in Postscript). And all of our Excel docs have always really been CSVs. Office interoperability doesn't affect us too much.
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Is it common to get the digital signal easier than the analog one? I live about 60 to 100 miles away from where my over-the-air boradcasts are coming from. I've been using an indoor boosted antennae (some RCA job from Wal-Mart) with moderate success. I've been eyeing something similar to the SIR-T451 but don't want to blow a wad of money and then not get any signal.
It's a great idea. The site can just downright lie about the opponent and the challenger can just deny any responsibility since they didn't put those lies there to begin with (at least not in any provable way).
"People equate cost with quality (usually incorrectly), and as such cheaper games will often sell less overall."
This reminds me of a client I used to have. He was running an insurance program for temp nurses who do not get health care for the hospitals they work for or their temp agency. The policy wasn't a great one but it was cheap enough that if anything catastrophic happened, they wouldn't be up the creek. Nobody was interested. He then took the exact same policy and charged 15% more for it and it sold like hotcakes. And these are nurses. You'd think they'd be able to read what health coverage they're getting a little bit better than the average joe.
With a project this expensive it's probably better to get some real arcade parts off of eBay or somewhere like Happ Controls and wire them up to encoders for various PCs, consoles, etc using DB-9/15/25/etc connectors (or even Molex if you're into that sort of thing). That way you only have to swap encoders instead of building a new seat each time. Modularity can save hundreds of dollars here even if you have to resort to buying a steering wheel for each console and hacking an arcade steering wheel's inputs to the console's inputs.
I know the publisher, but their football game is very good. For at least 3 or 4 years now, it hasn't been the same game each year. The engine has improved to the point that it's worth the new engine and not just the roster updates. The standard /. reply is that it's missing features from last year, but those features are NOT part of the football engine and are not missed by people who are only interested in using it to play football (which is what the game is designed for). I like originality but I plan on buying the new football titles yearly as long as they can keep it interesting. I do miss the "other" publisher who lost out on the NFL rights though. Their game was better IMHO.
Can't even get through a Q&A without a dupe? Why is question 1 repeated in question 4? I realize they're not exactly the same but the information we get from 1 is the same as what we get from 4 and it should've been pretty obvious that would be the case.
So does that mean that the rest of the world doesn't care about Pro Halo except for Canada who has a pro version of the game that has a few different rules mostly regarding player substitution and level size and is mostly ignored by fans of the US version of Halo?
I'd wager that anyone who hacks on the kernel frequently needs to reboot often. I'd definately consider kernel hackers to be "serious" Linux users.
Nothing serious. GRUB doesn't have to be reloaded each time you add or take away a kernel. It's only a 5 second procedure in LILO (or 2-3 minutes if you have to manually monkey with the lilo.conf file). Personally, I prefer LILO for working with kernels because I touch the lilo.conf file each time a kernel is compiled. It makes it easier for me to weed out possible boot-loading problems when I'm making changes to kernel code.
As others here have pointed out, if you monkey a lot with multiple *NIX kernels, GRUB is a bit easier to use. For those of us who don't do that sort of thing, there really isn't much of a difference.
I like the additional accessory angle. That could acutally work if a Google PC can target and overcome the weaknesses in the current iterations of Windows. XP Media Center is nice, but it's only been around for a year or two. People are holding onto machines a lot longer than they used to. Also, Media Center is usually only available on upper tier units. If Google can put a $200 PC out there that's good at DVR functions, can play videos from different sources, and can do some general PC functions, it could be a viable system. Especially if it played nice with the other computer at home by way of file sharing.
I haven't been disappointed with the portions of the 3D Sonic that actually involve Sonic. Tails, Knuckles, etc haven't really done much for me in 2D or in 3D. I'd like to see a Sonic game that is actually about Sonic the Hedgehog and doesn't have Knuckles, Tails, Shadow, Team Dark, Team Kissyfur, etc trying to steal the show. This isn't a cartoon. It's a platformer. More characters don't tend to add more depth here. They just tend to muddy the waters.
Having a life? Sounds like you either don't have kids or didn't get that young single lifestyle out of your system before you did. When I had my first child, I was a person who spent a lot of time away from home. I went out frequently to bars, malls, etc. When my daughter was born, I quickly lost interest in the bars and I tended to spend a lot less time at malls. The time I did spend at malls was spend mostly at toy stores, book stores, and Chuck E Cheese. I still interact with adults on a regular basis but I spend the majority of my free time interacting with my children. Having kids isn't about being tied down. There are plenty of sitters. It's about spending time as a family.
A lot of families do have better things to do than going on the internet, but they have things they need to get done and the internet is the most convenient way to do a lot of those things.
So a guy who hangs out waiting to shoot down ideas from some dude on an internet message board decides to just chuck a valid argument because surely the automakers thought of that. Is that why the early Ford Focus steering wheels had a tendency to detach themselves from the steering column? Surely the automakers realized the driver would need that steering wheel. Or for a technology-based one, how about that Hyundai Elantra that has the auto-sensing airbag deployment for the front seat? That's a good idea. Too bad it didn't occur to the design engineers that sometimes the weight of the baby and the car seat can exceed 50 pounds. That'll throw off the system and incorrectly deploy the air bag in some cases.
Unfortunately, cars are dangerous enough and used often enough that even a solution that works 99.9% of the time is inadequate. It'll take a lot of convincing to get me to turn over the controls of my vehicle to a system that is given such a simplified explanation behind it.
That's not a very good solution for this application. The Nissan car here (if it's the same one I read about elsewhere) doesn't steer for you. It just "corrects" your steering if you veer off to one side. I'd rather the car not interfere with my driving at all than steer me into a ditch because I can figure out which lines really constitute a lane and the computer can't.
There's a LOT less to worry about when a plane is in the air flying. I don't know a pilot alive who would autopilot through anything more than mild turbulence. Autopilot also doesn't take off and land for you. It's closest equivalent in the automotive world is cruise control. Cruise control would be just as good as autopilot if the vehicle didn't have to worry about other vehicles on a regular basis and had a lane to work with that was as straight as typical airplane headings.
From TFA on 7 ways cars are already robots:
"4. Lane-Departure Prevention
Nissan has a prototype that uses cameras and software to detect white lines and reflective markers. If the system determines the vehicle is drifting, it will steer the car back into the proper lane."
I've driven enough roads under construction that I would be seriously afraid that my car would steer me into oncoming traffic because road workers haven't bothered to paint over lines that were previously there.
Personally, I'd be interested in how these vehicles do:
1. On regular highways.
2. At speeds other than the 5 to 25 MPH tested.
I realize they're not built for that. I would just like to see how they do applying what they "learned" in the desert to real traffic situations.
There's no such thing as "amateur" porn. It's all a scam to get you to pay to watch ugly people.
Don't worry. The joke was worth the karma hit.
A good university isn't going to teach you a language. They're going to teach you how to be a good programmer and how to apply good scientific methodology to software design. If you get your degree and still can't understand how to easily pick up a language from scanning a book or two and maybe talking to someone who already knows the language, then your university has failed you.
Universities teach mostly Java right now because Java uses a C style syntax. Java forces some things like OOP and exception handling. Java's built-in APIs make it easier for students to build projects without worrying about what libraries to use, system incompatibilities, and that sort of thing. Java's kitchen sink API lets instructors ignore things like build environments and focus on the topic at hand.
...but this is the same thing two-bit Asian electronics companies have been pushing for a while now. It's just in prettier packaging. The one I have now (that I bought at the mall after talking the guy down from $50 to $15) looks a bit silly with it's cartridge slot being almost flush with the top of the unit, but I'll bet underneath the same ship makes both tick.
From the parent's link, a post by a Nuby employee: "I had a feeling there would be issues with this in the hardcore community, but it's more geared towards a casual gamer."
Riiiiiiiight. A casual gamer is going to spend $50+ on an NES when they can get a GC for $60, a PS2 for $120, or a wide variety of controller-to-TV games for $10-$20. If Messiah and Nuby really think that, then their console is dead in the water. Judging by the compatibility list, this thing IS just like the other NES clones that have been around for a few years.
Maybe because OpenOffice's main goal isn't to replace MS Office but to be the best office product available? It's open source software. There's no worries about going out of business or posting profits or anything of that nature. They don't have to compete with MS. They just have to compete with themselves. If the people who are working on this project don't feel like spending every waking moment tracking every little nuance of the MS Office file formats, I can't blame them.
Open source isn't about some anti-MS BS. It's about being able to do what you want to with your software. If you don't like this particular product or how it works, you are free to make the changes you would like to it. Does OO not handle something about the MS file format the way you would like? Then fix it.
In my workplace most documents that we send out that were formerly Word docs are now PDFs (and our one client who actually wants it in Postscript). And all of our Excel docs have always really been CSVs. Office interoperability doesn't affect us too much.
I know they've been cranking out a lot of Unreal Tournament sequels lately, but I didn't know they already had 2006 of them.
They send Dr. Diablo after him.