Well, I think this makes compelete sense - a lot of island communities tend to stick with alternative power supplies. In the US look at Maui, where solar power trumps all other power simply due to the fact that half of the island is brand-spanking-new in geologic terms, and putting power lines and poles in freshly hardened volcanic rock is prohibitively expensive. I can only imagine the same applies here.
Also, does anyone remember GI Joe the movie? The broadcast energy device? So awesome that a childhood fictional device is actually coming to fruition:)
Do you think that the ESRB would give Duke Nukem Forever a chance? I mean, a game where you kill pig cops and get strippers to flash you... has pornos as easter eggs... no way. I don't think so.
On the upside, were they to give it the dreaded AO rating, unlike PS2, Wii and X360 they'd still be able to release it since no one does the licensing for PC.
Exactly. Google's biggest concern with net neutrality is that they'd have to pay for their service to keep running at the volume that it does. So, they're trying to go the way of the old world millionaires - buying up every single resource needed to deliver their product (or service) from cradle to the grave. They aren't going to charge themselves a premium if people use their spectrum to deliver their own service - they don't have to. Its just like when early American capitalists bought up not only the oil wells, but the railroads between them and the refineries, then the refineries. No one can impede on them if they control everything they need to deliver their service.
Thats what I love about this whole situation - google has MASSIVE resources to throw at this. If they do get outbid, whoever does so will have to do it with a massive pricetag. Also, google doesn't have the constraints of having to maintain a current telecom network, which all of the other bidders do. The other bidders can't go "all in" because they have too damn much to lose, where google really does not. I believe, just like most of the other posters, that AT&T, Verizon, and the rest all are realizing that they're going to lose the bidding war - hence the sudden 'open network' craze.
It supports small, regular text heavy pdfs with a paid conversion. However, considering I like to keep all of my programming books with me, and they're all in pdf, that presents a problem. They aren't text heavy as much as they are code (very difficult to reflow) and image heavy. Plus it does very badly with large pdf files (+30 mb) which kind of cans the idea of using most of my OReilly books.
I have no interest in Kindle - the lack of PDF support, and no pdf converters kind of killed it for me. I've got a smartphone which supports them, and considering PDF is now a standard formate its kind of inexcusable not to support it. The sony ebook reader supports pdf (albiet indirectly), and at least has a pretty decent converter to import pdf files into its native format.
Sadly, the best is still the regular adobe reader I have on my junky old Ipaq. The added bonus? My ipaq displayes images in color.
I don't see anything about restricting.IFO, or.VOB files. Also, I don't see any restriction on.OGG or.OGV. So, basically its the major media sharing formats - theres nothing against ogg vorbis, or any number of other filetypes.
Hmmm, the highest crime rate in a first world nation, not to mention the highest gun crime rate of any industrialized nation. Your sarcastic comment is closer to the truth than you think. As much as I shudder to mention it (I'm a liberal, but I despise sensationalism), you may want to check out "Bowling for Columbine."
Oh yeah, I forgot! Thanks for clearing that up. Also, did you ever notice that in the US its ok for prime time tv to show someone's bullet riddled corpse, but its not ok for two people to be shown having sex, or even showing nudity? Its like the act of procreation and creating life is taboo, but the act of ending life isn't - and we wonder why we have issues with violence in our nation. Hell, its considered distasteful to even show things like "The Miracle of Life" without it being in a highly academic context.
Actually they've done studies which showed a correlation to many things involving the military and violence. For example, soldiers are taught to literally drive through crowds in war situations. Strangely enough, areas around military bases have an abnormally high number of automobile collisions, and pedestrian fatalities. I wish I still had access to academic databases and could cite the studies. Similarly, soldiers who've spent time in warzones appear to have an increased tendency towards violent behavior. Go figure, right? Obviously you can't infer causation, but the correlation does seem to be pretty scary.
So maybe they'll stop glorifying war, violence, and all of the blood battered details of the latest shoot-em-up rampage on the evening news? Nah, why would they do that when they can blame video games instead. Sigh.
Even when bankrupt justice won't be served. Tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs, some may lose their homes (of course no one on SCO's executive board will have to worry about that). Ultimately, the execs were the ones who made the decision to go after the frivolous lawsuits, but they're not the ones who're going to pay when the company is done with its death throes. Its easy to look at SCO as a big evil company, but its not. Its a group of thousands of people with just a splash of evil at its helm. I feel bad because of the innocent people who're going to have to pay for the actions of the ones who are steering.
Well, is a little of both an option? For some of them at least. Flash 5 is almost a completely different program from the modern versions of flash, the actionscript has changed almost entirely, and the layout is very different. The other legacy programs still have *some* semebelence to their newer versions, so letting them get their feet wet might be a good idea. However, you can present it in a way "this is what photoshop looked like a couple years ago and it still looks pretty similar. Due to restrictions we can't show you a current copy, however here is a free alternative called gimp that can do all of the same things, and you can play with it at home!"
I stand corrected:) They used to be MUCH more expensive, though it could have been related to the expansion coming out. I even saw a copy of the original collectors edition sell for more than 2 grand. Maybe its not so worth it as I thought:-P
I think you're still getting all of the same items though, maybe just not with the boxes. If you read the complete listing it says that it includes all of the warcraft comics, novels, posters, art books, behind the scenes DVDs, etc - most of this was stuff included with the collectors editions, and a lot that wasn't. If you're a Warcraft fan in general its pretty cool.
Physics accelerators are kind of like fancy math coprocessors from back in the day. Basically it allows your CPU to offload otherwise cpu/gpu intensive physics and geometry calculations to a specialized chip so the processors can worry about more important things. A lot of newer games can utilize them (Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and CoD:4 for example). They're pretty cool, and allow for a lot more detail in scenery.
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Well, I think this makes compelete sense - a lot of island communities tend to stick with alternative power supplies. In the US look at Maui, where solar power trumps all other power simply due to the fact that half of the island is brand-spanking-new in geologic terms, and putting power lines and poles in freshly hardened volcanic rock is prohibitively expensive. I can only imagine the same applies here. Also, does anyone remember GI Joe the movie? The broadcast energy device? So awesome that a childhood fictional device is actually coming to fruition :)
I doubt it would cause too much friction tbh. Mozilla provides an adblocker, but so does pretty much every other browser out there these days.
What in the hell are you talking about? This post is damn near unreadable, and even if it was readable, its incomprehensable.
The doctor in the article is named Dr. Neukem. If his first name is Duke, I would not want to be the one to contest his theory.
The fact that I did play when I was 12 just made me feel very, very, very old. lol
Do you think that the ESRB would give Duke Nukem Forever a chance? I mean, a game where you kill pig cops and get strippers to flash you... has pornos as easter eggs... no way. I don't think so. On the upside, were they to give it the dreaded AO rating, unlike PS2, Wii and X360 they'd still be able to release it since no one does the licensing for PC.
These actually aren't earth animals, they're the skeletons from Xenu's spacecraft! Tom Cruise was right all along!
The difference between high and very high has always meant about one or two bowlpacks difference to me...
You forgot the 486 DX, which can run Doom moderately well.
Exactly. Google's biggest concern with net neutrality is that they'd have to pay for their service to keep running at the volume that it does. So, they're trying to go the way of the old world millionaires - buying up every single resource needed to deliver their product (or service) from cradle to the grave. They aren't going to charge themselves a premium if people use their spectrum to deliver their own service - they don't have to. Its just like when early American capitalists bought up not only the oil wells, but the railroads between them and the refineries, then the refineries. No one can impede on them if they control everything they need to deliver their service.
Thats what I love about this whole situation - google has MASSIVE resources to throw at this. If they do get outbid, whoever does so will have to do it with a massive pricetag. Also, google doesn't have the constraints of having to maintain a current telecom network, which all of the other bidders do. The other bidders can't go "all in" because they have too damn much to lose, where google really does not. I believe, just like most of the other posters, that AT&T, Verizon, and the rest all are realizing that they're going to lose the bidding war - hence the sudden 'open network' craze.
It supports small, regular text heavy pdfs with a paid conversion. However, considering I like to keep all of my programming books with me, and they're all in pdf, that presents a problem. They aren't text heavy as much as they are code (very difficult to reflow) and image heavy. Plus it does very badly with large pdf files (+30 mb) which kind of cans the idea of using most of my OReilly books.
I have no interest in Kindle - the lack of PDF support, and no pdf converters kind of killed it for me. I've got a smartphone which supports them, and considering PDF is now a standard formate its kind of inexcusable not to support it. The sony ebook reader supports pdf (albiet indirectly), and at least has a pretty decent converter to import pdf files into its native format. Sadly, the best is still the regular adobe reader I have on my junky old Ipaq. The added bonus? My ipaq displayes images in color.
I don't see anything about restricting .IFO, or .VOB files. Also, I don't see any restriction on .OGG or .OGV. So, basically its the major media sharing formats - theres nothing against ogg vorbis, or any number of other filetypes.
Hmmm, the highest crime rate in a first world nation, not to mention the highest gun crime rate of any industrialized nation. Your sarcastic comment is closer to the truth than you think. As much as I shudder to mention it (I'm a liberal, but I despise sensationalism), you may want to check out "Bowling for Columbine."
Oh yeah, I forgot! Thanks for clearing that up. Also, did you ever notice that in the US its ok for prime time tv to show someone's bullet riddled corpse, but its not ok for two people to be shown having sex, or even showing nudity? Its like the act of procreation and creating life is taboo, but the act of ending life isn't - and we wonder why we have issues with violence in our nation. Hell, its considered distasteful to even show things like "The Miracle of Life" without it being in a highly academic context.
Actually they've done studies which showed a correlation to many things involving the military and violence. For example, soldiers are taught to literally drive through crowds in war situations. Strangely enough, areas around military bases have an abnormally high number of automobile collisions, and pedestrian fatalities. I wish I still had access to academic databases and could cite the studies. Similarly, soldiers who've spent time in warzones appear to have an increased tendency towards violent behavior. Go figure, right? Obviously you can't infer causation, but the correlation does seem to be pretty scary.
So maybe they'll stop glorifying war, violence, and all of the blood battered details of the latest shoot-em-up rampage on the evening news? Nah, why would they do that when they can blame video games instead. Sigh.
Thats it? I was under the impression that the SCO group was far, far larger.
Even when bankrupt justice won't be served. Tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs, some may lose their homes (of course no one on SCO's executive board will have to worry about that). Ultimately, the execs were the ones who made the decision to go after the frivolous lawsuits, but they're not the ones who're going to pay when the company is done with its death throes. Its easy to look at SCO as a big evil company, but its not. Its a group of thousands of people with just a splash of evil at its helm. I feel bad because of the innocent people who're going to have to pay for the actions of the ones who are steering.
Most of the filters can be redone with script-fu, cant they?
Well, is a little of both an option? For some of them at least. Flash 5 is almost a completely different program from the modern versions of flash, the actionscript has changed almost entirely, and the layout is very different. The other legacy programs still have *some* semebelence to their newer versions, so letting them get their feet wet might be a good idea. However, you can present it in a way "this is what photoshop looked like a couple years ago and it still looks pretty similar. Due to restrictions we can't show you a current copy, however here is a free alternative called gimp that can do all of the same things, and you can play with it at home!"
I stand corrected :) They used to be MUCH more expensive, though it could have been related to the expansion coming out. I even saw a copy of the original collectors edition sell for more than 2 grand. Maybe its not so worth it as I thought :-P
I think you're still getting all of the same items though, maybe just not with the boxes. If you read the complete listing it says that it includes all of the warcraft comics, novels, posters, art books, behind the scenes DVDs, etc - most of this was stuff included with the collectors editions, and a lot that wasn't. If you're a Warcraft fan in general its pretty cool.
Physics accelerators are kind of like fancy math coprocessors from back in the day. Basically it allows your CPU to offload otherwise cpu/gpu intensive physics and geometry calculations to a specialized chip so the processors can worry about more important things. A lot of newer games can utilize them (Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and CoD:4 for example). They're pretty cool, and allow for a lot more detail in scenery.