Except the performance tests so far show that the beta of windows 7 outperforms both Vista and XP. It may be similar to xp bloat wise, but if its faster I'll use it. And so long as it doesn't make me click through 8000 goddamned windows to get to network connection properties. Network troubleshooting with vista is a pain in the ass.
This is hugely important, especially with CDR's. It hit me recently for personal archives. I found an 8 year old burnt CD and was extremely excited. Until I realized that it was no longer readable without constant CRC errors. This was a cd that was put in a case immediately after burning and had never once received a scratch. The ink just broke down over time (as its known to do). The data could most likely have been saved if I'd checked it 3-4 years ago. My fault.
We do data hosting, and I can't imagine how catastrophic that would be. Jebus. Let this be an ultimate example of why numerous backups are needed. Always. Without question.
I disagree. A large portion of US Government owned patents come from NASA. These patents are then licensed out, or auctioned off in exchange for money. Give them funding to create money for themselves and US. It's only a liability if you refuse to utilize it as an asset. Where the other things you mentioned are pork, funding NASA can easily reap economic benefits if the administration in charge would choose to use it like they did back in the 1960's.
I agree completely, actually. I am simply saying that there seems to be a sort of stigma with linux that it is unrefined and unsupported because of its community roots. Solaris and other 'true' unix breeds have had corporate backing their entire lifetimes, whereas linux started with a crazy bearded man named Stallman and a geeky, somewhat self absorbed kernel hacker named Torvalds. They see 'linux,' they don't see the fact that it's an actual supported OS now. First impressions were kinda fumbled:(
They do have high res ones, but they're so prohibitively expensive that I doubt anyone on here would get a pair without a hefty research grant and a very specific reason to use them. It took some heavy searching before to find one when I was interested. I sadly can't turn up any links now.
Layer 8 types have heard of Solaris, and Sun Microsystems. Its more marketable than 'pure' linux because there is a large company supporting it, as opposed to an amorphous community which technically doesn't have anything really tying it together beyond the OS. As anyone whose ever pushed for open source adoption to an executive board will know, that's a real fear. Yes its cheaper, but what if there's no support? What if the website for the project goes down (as has happened with thousands of open source projects) and the forums go with it. Support dissapears. Yes there is enterprise linux, but I think a lot of the outsider view is still tainted by that idea of volatility.
I know, right! And the software you get from piracy works better, has patches included quite often, doesn't include bundled DRM, and you can't argue with the price.
Not only that, but licensing for the wii is markedly cheaper. Both X360 and Ps3 lose money on every console purchased, with an expectation that the money will be earned back in licensing fees. The wii, using commodity hardware, actually earns a profit on every console sold. This translates to cheaper licensing fees for developers. It costs a fraction of the price to release something on Wii. Even more, there are avenues such as the virtual console and wiiware to release on which will give Take-Two a chance to release some smaller things, or older games as well. To not to sell to the wii would be idiotic considering its outsold the other two consoles by a vast margin.
Further I think this opens up another issue... those who pirate materials could be tried for tax evasion. Exactly how they nailed Al Capone. They couldn't get him on other things, but they could get him on that. I was always under the impression that taxes are paid based on the geographic location of the point of sale.
My grandmother and grand father both suffered from alzheimer's before they died, so I'm familiar with the normal progression it makes (at least so far as I've experienced it). When my father was diagnosed with alzheimer's, my mother bought him a nintendo DS, and all of the brain age games. She got him a Wii for big brain academy. His episodes of forgetfulness seem to have halted, or at least slowed down, since he began playing the games regularly (my mother hawks over him to make sure he plays his games for the day). I know I can't really infer anything from my experiences, especially since I haven't gathered any data outside of my observations, but for what its worth my experiences support the findings of this study. I think this is a poorly explored area which really could yield some benefits.
Just wondering what the Department of Homeland Security would do with technology like this. Its kind of scary, don't you think? Especially if this gets optimized and is proven accurate. On the other hand, imagine being able to reconstruct exact images from the mind of a victim to identify their assailant? But then you still have an issue with accuracy because human memory is so prone to being influenced. Still, pretty neat stuff.
Agreed. My suggestions would be Karel or Core War. Karel because it is simple, fun, and really boosts creativity in programming I think, especially for beginners. For those who aren't familiar, Karel (Karel J. Robot) is a simulation of a robot controller... sort of. You basically write code for Karel to follow as she travels around a room. Core War is great because you craft virtual machines to duel one another. So not only does it present the fundamentals of programming (planning through deployment and maintainance), but it does so in a competitive and strategic environment.
Also, make sure to forward the students to the stanford courses for continuing education. They're free and can offer a college education's worth of knowledge to a dedicated student (minus the degree of course). Great post parent.
They get the current call of duty to work first? A massive portion of the player population still can't do minor things like adjusting the resolution, or playing at all because of issues with the bink video files. Check the Activision/Treyarch forums. Is it so hard to get something right before they move on to a new product? Sheesh.
In some places (at least in the US) there are still shortages of Wii Systems, so a lot of people can't just walk in to a store and buy them. This is in part because Nintendo has decided to market to the UK over the US because of the current economic climate, as discussed in a previous slashdot article.
Well said anon. However, doesn't the Xbox 360 run on a modified NT kernel? There should be *some* overlap, somewhere. Or have they really modified it that much? I'm not a game dev so I wouldn't even venture a guess.
I have actually had the exact opposite experience. We regularly have groups of friends over, and I've found that the number of party oriented games seems to draw people to the system much more than the other systems - the the point where I sold my 360 and kept the Wii. People would watch the 360 for the eyecandy, but when they realized that there's not much more you can do beyond playing with two people, they get bored. There's something fun about watching other people flail around. It says a lot when the tech demo for the game, wii sports, is still everyone's favorite game to play when they come over for beer and cocktails.
What complete innovation to game and system input have you designed and mass marketed? What industries have you revolutionized? What pop culture icons have you invented and embedded into the hearts of minds of people worldwide?
Oh, guess you were too busy posting halfwitted posts on the internet to do anything even remotely important.
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These tests disagree with you, real world performance - not PCMark or anything.
Except the performance tests so far show that the beta of windows 7 outperforms both Vista and XP. It may be similar to xp bloat wise, but if its faster I'll use it. And so long as it doesn't make me click through 8000 goddamned windows to get to network connection properties. Network troubleshooting with vista is a pain in the ass.
This is hugely important, especially with CDR's. It hit me recently for personal archives. I found an 8 year old burnt CD and was extremely excited. Until I realized that it was no longer readable without constant CRC errors. This was a cd that was put in a case immediately after burning and had never once received a scratch. The ink just broke down over time (as its known to do). The data could most likely have been saved if I'd checked it 3-4 years ago. My fault.
We do data hosting, and I can't imagine how catastrophic that would be. Jebus. Let this be an ultimate example of why numerous backups are needed. Always. Without question.
I disagree. A large portion of US Government owned patents come from NASA. These patents are then licensed out, or auctioned off in exchange for money. Give them funding to create money for themselves and US. It's only a liability if you refuse to utilize it as an asset. Where the other things you mentioned are pork, funding NASA can easily reap economic benefits if the administration in charge would choose to use it like they did back in the 1960's.
I would mod you up, but you're already at a 5. You sir are a gentleman, and a scholar.
I agree completely, actually. I am simply saying that there seems to be a sort of stigma with linux that it is unrefined and unsupported because of its community roots. Solaris and other 'true' unix breeds have had corporate backing their entire lifetimes, whereas linux started with a crazy bearded man named Stallman and a geeky, somewhat self absorbed kernel hacker named Torvalds. They see 'linux,' they don't see the fact that it's an actual supported OS now. First impressions were kinda fumbled :(
They do have high res ones, but they're so prohibitively expensive that I doubt anyone on here would get a pair without a hefty research grant and a very specific reason to use them. It took some heavy searching before to find one when I was interested. I sadly can't turn up any links now.
Layer 8 types have heard of Solaris, and Sun Microsystems. Its more marketable than 'pure' linux because there is a large company supporting it, as opposed to an amorphous community which technically doesn't have anything really tying it together beyond the OS. As anyone whose ever pushed for open source adoption to an executive board will know, that's a real fear. Yes its cheaper, but what if there's no support? What if the website for the project goes down (as has happened with thousands of open source projects) and the forums go with it. Support dissapears. Yes there is enterprise linux, but I think a lot of the outsider view is still tainted by that idea of volatility.
I know, right! And the software you get from piracy works better, has patches included quite often, doesn't include bundled DRM, and you can't argue with the price.
Not only that, but licensing for the wii is markedly cheaper. Both X360 and Ps3 lose money on every console purchased, with an expectation that the money will be earned back in licensing fees. The wii, using commodity hardware, actually earns a profit on every console sold. This translates to cheaper licensing fees for developers. It costs a fraction of the price to release something on Wii. Even more, there are avenues such as the virtual console and wiiware to release on which will give Take-Two a chance to release some smaller things, or older games as well. To not to sell to the wii would be idiotic considering its outsold the other two consoles by a vast margin.
Further I think this opens up another issue... those who pirate materials could be tried for tax evasion. Exactly how they nailed Al Capone. They couldn't get him on other things, but they could get him on that. I was always under the impression that taxes are paid based on the geographic location of the point of sale.
Hey you, with the logic and the sense making, shush!
My grandmother and grand father both suffered from alzheimer's before they died, so I'm familiar with the normal progression it makes (at least so far as I've experienced it). When my father was diagnosed with alzheimer's, my mother bought him a nintendo DS, and all of the brain age games. She got him a Wii for big brain academy. His episodes of forgetfulness seem to have halted, or at least slowed down, since he began playing the games regularly (my mother hawks over him to make sure he plays his games for the day). I know I can't really infer anything from my experiences, especially since I haven't gathered any data outside of my observations, but for what its worth my experiences support the findings of this study. I think this is a poorly explored area which really could yield some benefits.
That's not super friendly. It is however, alliteration.
Just wondering what the Department of Homeland Security would do with technology like this. Its kind of scary, don't you think? Especially if this gets optimized and is proven accurate. On the other hand, imagine being able to reconstruct exact images from the mind of a victim to identify their assailant? But then you still have an issue with accuracy because human memory is so prone to being influenced. Still, pretty neat stuff.
Also, make sure to forward the students to the stanford courses for continuing education. They're free and can offer a college education's worth of knowledge to a dedicated student (minus the degree of course). Great post parent.
Plus, in Norway there were Vikings. And Vikings rank only slightly behind Pirates and Ninjas on the Cool-O-Meter (tm, patent pending).
They get the current call of duty to work first? A massive portion of the player population still can't do minor things like adjusting the resolution, or playing at all because of issues with the bink video files. Check the Activision/Treyarch forums. Is it so hard to get something right before they move on to a new product? Sheesh.
In some places (at least in the US) there are still shortages of Wii Systems, so a lot of people can't just walk in to a store and buy them. This is in part because Nintendo has decided to market to the UK over the US because of the current economic climate, as discussed in a previous slashdot article.
Well said anon. However, doesn't the Xbox 360 run on a modified NT kernel? There should be *some* overlap, somewhere. Or have they really modified it that much? I'm not a game dev so I wouldn't even venture a guess.
I have actually had the exact opposite experience. We regularly have groups of friends over, and I've found that the number of party oriented games seems to draw people to the system much more than the other systems - the the point where I sold my 360 and kept the Wii. People would watch the 360 for the eyecandy, but when they realized that there's not much more you can do beyond playing with two people, they get bored. There's something fun about watching other people flail around. It says a lot when the tech demo for the game, wii sports, is still everyone's favorite game to play when they come over for beer and cocktails.
What complete innovation to game and system input have you designed and mass marketed? What industries have you revolutionized? What pop culture icons have you invented and embedded into the hearts of minds of people worldwide?
Oh, guess you were too busy posting halfwitted posts on the internet to do anything even remotely important.
You, sir, are the epic failure.
Good day.
Shh, don't tell PETA or you'll get a bunch of crazies after you for animal exploitation :)
However they did add 1029922 shiny new types of DRM, and a free proctological exam to boot!