Let's put it this way: If the Xbox2 won't play my Xbox1 games, requiring me to keep both an Xbox1 and Xbox2 connected to my TV, then why should I buy an Xbox2? I'm free to buy any other console that won't play my Xbox1 games: PS3, GameSphere, whatever -- even a PS2, which will be like free by then and have about 100 times more titles.
Exactly correct. And this is the same reason why the Itanium bombed.
Hey, that's pretty impressive, actually. I see a few turn-based, too.
As for saving in the midst of a battle, that's quite nice, I guess, but if it's a RTS game, it's less impressive than, for example, a battle in a TB game like Heroes of Might and Magic.
Out of curiosity (I am not a console gamer): what strategy games exist for consoles? I know of only 1, the original Dune. And some fantasy/adventure version of Heroes of MIght and Magic, but I am not sure if that counts as strategy.
I very much doubt there's any turn-based strat game.
I have a hard time associating anything bad with the Commodore computers I used to hack on. It was my first encounter with the world of computing and programming, it was great.
I am surprised, because in my "previous life" (used to work as a network designer) about 7-8 years ago, 3Com NICs were regarded as THE best, both as build quality/reliability and efficiency. There was some neat tech in the 3Com network cards, and at least in the part of the world I used to live in (eastern europe) 3Com was a highly respected brand.
What happened next is, they were attacked from the low-end by much cheaper competition, their routers were nothing special, and they had suffered at the high end, at the hands of Intel (EtherExpress cards had impressive tech there, too), HP and other big names.
The many brain-dead focus-shi(f)ts didn't help, either.
Thanks. I bought a copy of c't once when I visited Rheinland Pfalz, but my command of German was woefully unadequate to appreciate it. Still, I could see that it's an excellent magazine, written by people who know what the heck they're talking about.
Did the c't article mention that the Pentium M was developed in Israel, or did you just know otherwise? I had the impression that the fact that the Centrino was developed in Haifa, was kept relatively secret, as Israel seems to always attract so much controversy.
I am neither a PPC or a x86 pundit (microcontrollers here), but as I understand it, the PPC has much more registers than the x86, and this, in my experience, does give a speed advantage.
Photosynthesis was at first nothing at all to do with multi-cellular organisms - it was blue-green algae (bacteria). Indeed, what I stated that multicellular life was enabled by the lowering of temperature, due to these organisms you mention.
Some of these can live in close-to-boiling water. Do you mean that such cyanobacteria (the "ruggedized" type) still exists? Genuine quiestion here.
I tend to drop this arguing, as, in my mind, it's irrelevant whether we completely wipe out life or just most of the living species that exist today. Either way, the process that leads there will suck, and we agree on that. And to be honest, that's what matters most to me.
(but if the Earth turns out to be like Venus, I'll be promptly contacting you with a "I told you so!":o))))
You might as well say that a few degrees of temperature rise makes the Earth more like the surface of the Sun. Its technically correct, but not a useful comparison. Look, you probably know that there is a reason why the earth is not cold and barren like Mars or a f* hell like Venus. It is because of it's distance to the Sun in the first place, but also due to the presence of photosynthesis-capable organisms, that have significantly reduced the concentration of CO2. PÅrior to the appearance of these, the Earth was almost unbearable for anything but those bacteria that you can still find nowadays living near underwater volcanic vents (these guys survive at 120+ celsius). Consider that the age of the Earth is estimated at 4.5 Billion years, of which only a very tiny fraction was multicellular organisms, and chiefly thanks to photosynthesis. The appearance of this pheonmenon has stabilized the climate on Earth, and the process IS reversible. The carbon that has been slowly but steadily captured and stored away (in the form of coal and mineral oil) is now bein quickly and steadily released into the atmosphere.
There is an arrogant, and mistaken, attitude that humankind can 'destroy the world', or 'wipe out all life'. What we can do is make the Earth a very unpleasant place for ourselves. Arrogant is rather the attitude that we can do whatever we want to the place where we live, with disregard to it's other inhabitants and, duh, with disregard to our children and their children, who will inherit the crap we do today.
There is no evidence that warming will destroy plankton.
No need to use future tense: it's happening now, and evidence exists.
No - the Earth will not resemble Venus at all. The surface of the Earth will not get up to several hundred degrees C, and we will not be swamped by clouds of sulphuric acid.
True, but what I was trying to say is that it will resemble Venus moree than it does now.
You mentioned effects that would cause negative feedback, but unfortunately the greeat majority of scientists agree that the positive feedback seems to be more significant.
What most people like to forget or not know is, the possible phenomenon of global warming will be a runaway (positive-feedback) process, just like the runaway global cooling that happened a few hundred million years ago. With increase of temperature, already now many white areas have disappeared. Not only at the poles but also on mountains like the Alps. This decrease of albedo will cause further warming, as more energy is absorbed, hence increasing the rate of warming.
There is another positive feedback: with the increase of temperature, many of the plancton that is responsible for the conversion of CO2 into oxygen is not able to survive, causing a higher percentage of CO2 in the air, hence further increasing the rate of warming. Similar to this is the effect of warming on disappearance of forests (you got that in even in the US). So, the Earth may be stable, but there is a tipping point after which it will start to resamble Venus for a while.
After that, things wil come back to normal, but not many of the existing multicellular organisms will survive. It will be much worse than the runaway glaciation of the Earth.
I am used to read a lot of bad press about the Ngage, including Slashdot. You might have the impression that such a bad and unpopular phone/console would be cheap to snatch up on eBay and similar places.
When I decided I wanted an MP3 player built into a phone, and that I would try to getthat combo by buying a second-hand Ngage, I was very disappointed: Ngage are auctioned off at very respectable prices. High enough that I am made to wonder if I would rather buy a separate MP3 player after all.
So, the only logical conclusion I can draw is: Ngage customers seem to be very satisfied with it. There just isn't enough people parting with their Ngage, to have the prices drop.
This guy seems to have the stranges ass ever. Is this what becomes like after you spend most of your life sitting at a desk Wally-style? Which actually reminds me: this dude looks like the real-life inspiration for the Wally character.
It's mentality like yours, and people that would shove Linux down everyone's throat, that is creating an army of staunch opponents to the adoption of Linux.
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Well, it's a true story, but it also tells a lot about how stable NetWare 3.11 is. Or was.
"Last time I died for your sins. That didn't really work. So now I came back to kick your ass." ;o)))
Yeah, and my grandma was smoking and still lived 84 years, therefore smoking is not unhealthy.
Most probably, the earth is flat, too. All this science-thing is just a hoax.
Let's put it this way: If the Xbox2 won't play my Xbox1 games, requiring me to keep both an Xbox1 and Xbox2 connected to my TV, then why should I buy an Xbox2? I'm free to buy any other console that won't play my Xbox1 games: PS3, GameSphere, whatever -- even a PS2, which will be like free by then and have about 100 times more titles.
Exactly correct. And this is the same reason why the Itanium bombed.
Hey, that's pretty impressive, actually. I see a few turn-based, too.
As for saving in the midst of a battle, that's quite nice, I guess, but if it's a RTS game, it's less impressive than, for example, a battle in a TB game like Heroes of Might and Magic.
Out of curiosity (I am not a console gamer): what strategy games exist for consoles? I know of only 1, the original Dune. And some fantasy/adventure version of Heroes of MIght and Magic, but I am not sure if that counts as strategy.
I very much doubt there's any turn-based strat game.
Dude, Armageddon was a joke. People are still making fun of the "need to put oil guys on an asteroid"-plot.
Deep Impact made some sense, and was a lot less laughable.
OK, so this copy-protection tech does not wipe away the rendundancy, scratch-protection data from the CD. That's good.
I am still happy that I listen to classical music. Somehow these copyprotection schemes don't seem to be coming to the classical world.
I agree with the general idea you originally made, no discussion there.
Hey (and on the expense of topicness), what's Gamebase?
r, even worse, the Commodore 64
I have a hard time associating anything bad with the Commodore computers I used to hack on. It was my first encounter with the world of computing and programming, it was great.
I am surprised, because in my "previous life" (used to work as a network designer) about 7-8 years ago, 3Com NICs were regarded as THE best, both as build quality/reliability and efficiency. There was some neat tech in the 3Com network cards, and at least in the part of the world I used to live in (eastern europe) 3Com was a highly respected brand.
What happened next is, they were attacked from the low-end by much cheaper competition, their routers were nothing special, and they had suffered at the high end, at the hands of Intel (EtherExpress cards had impressive tech there, too), HP and other big names.
The many brain-dead focus-shi(f)ts didn't help, either.
If I were King I'd be all like, "OFF WITH HIS SCROTUM!!"
A friend of mine proposed, and I tend to agree, a better one: off with his penis, then re-attach it, and then cut it off again.
Wow, that's a novel idea! I never thought of my laptop as a lap-warmer. More like a lap-fryier.
Thanks. I bought a copy of c't once when I visited Rheinland Pfalz, but my command of German was woefully unadequate to appreciate it. Still, I could see that it's an excellent magazine, written by people who know what the heck they're talking about.
BTW, your English is excellent.
Did the c't article mention that the Pentium M was developed in Israel, or did you just know otherwise? I had the impression that the fact that the Centrino was developed in Haifa, was kept relatively secret, as Israel seems to always attract so much controversy.
I am neither a PPC or a x86 pundit (microcontrollers here), but as I understand it, the PPC has much more registers than the x86, and this, in my experience, does give a speed advantage.
Photosynthesis was at first nothing at all to do with multi-cellular organisms - it was blue-green algae (bacteria).
:o))))
Indeed, what I stated that multicellular life was enabled by the lowering of temperature, due to these organisms you mention.
Some of these can live in close-to-boiling water.
Do you mean that such cyanobacteria (the "ruggedized" type) still exists? Genuine quiestion here.
I tend to drop this arguing, as, in my mind, it's irrelevant whether we completely wipe out life or just most of the living species that exist today. Either way, the process that leads there will suck, and we agree on that. And to be honest, that's what matters most to me.
(but if the Earth turns out to be like Venus, I'll be promptly contacting you with a "I told you so!"
You might as well say that a few degrees of temperature rise makes the Earth more like the surface of the Sun. Its technically correct, but not a useful comparison.
Look, you probably know that there is a reason why the earth is not cold and barren like Mars or a f* hell like Venus. It is because of it's distance to the Sun in the first place, but also due to the presence of photosynthesis-capable organisms, that have significantly reduced the concentration of CO2. PÅrior to the appearance of these, the Earth was almost unbearable for anything but those bacteria that you can still find nowadays living near underwater volcanic vents (these guys survive at 120+ celsius). Consider that the age of the Earth is estimated at 4.5 Billion years, of which only a very tiny fraction was multicellular organisms, and chiefly thanks to photosynthesis. The appearance of this pheonmenon has stabilized the climate on Earth, and the process IS reversible. The carbon that has been slowly but steadily captured and stored away (in the form of coal and mineral oil) is now bein quickly and steadily released into the atmosphere.
There is an arrogant, and mistaken, attitude that humankind can 'destroy the world', or 'wipe out all life'. What we can do is make the Earth a very unpleasant place for ourselves.
Arrogant is rather the attitude that we can do whatever we want to the place where we live, with disregard to it's other inhabitants and, duh, with disregard to our children and their children, who will inherit the crap we do today.
There is no evidence that warming will destroy plankton.
No need to use future tense: it's happening now, and evidence exists.
No - the Earth will not resemble Venus at all. The surface of the Earth will not get up to several hundred degrees C, and we will not be swamped by clouds of sulphuric acid.
True, but what I was trying to say is that it will resemble Venus moree than it does now.
You mentioned effects that would cause negative feedback, but unfortunately the greeat majority of scientists agree that the positive feedback seems to be more significant.
What most people like to forget or not know is, the possible phenomenon of global warming will be a runaway (positive-feedback) process, just like the runaway global cooling that happened a few hundred million years ago. With increase of temperature, already now many white areas have disappeared. Not only at the poles but also on mountains like the Alps. This decrease of albedo will cause further warming, as more energy is absorbed, hence increasing the rate of warming.
There is another positive feedback: with the increase of temperature, many of the plancton that is responsible for the conversion of CO2 into oxygen is not able to survive, causing a higher percentage of CO2 in the air, hence further increasing the rate of warming. Similar to this is the effect of warming on disappearance of forests (you got that in even in the US). So, the Earth may be stable, but there is a tipping point after which it will start to resamble Venus for a while.
After that, things wil come back to normal, but not many of the existing multicellular organisms will survive. It will be much worse than the runaway glaciation of the Earth.
If they transmit the code over airport security frequencies or whatever, you can almost garuntee those won't be blocked.
Also, you can garuntee (sic) a premature detonation.
I am used to read a lot of bad press about the Ngage, including Slashdot. You might have the impression that such a bad and unpopular phone/console would be cheap to snatch up on eBay and similar places.
When I decided I wanted an MP3 player built into a phone, and that I would try to getthat combo by buying a second-hand Ngage, I was very disappointed: Ngage are auctioned off at very respectable prices. High enough that I am made to wonder if I would rather buy a separate MP3 player after all.
So, the only logical conclusion I can draw is: Ngage customers seem to be very satisfied with it. There just isn't enough people parting with their Ngage, to have the prices drop.
...people with security clearance, with one or both their eyes missing. That will mean the iris scanners have been improved!
(and if you see those people without fingers... well, that will mean electronic fingerprint recognition became popular)
This guy seems to have the stranges ass ever. Is this what becomes like after you spend most of your life sitting at a desk Wally-style? Which actually reminds me: this dude looks like the real-life inspiration for the Wally character.
It's mentality like yours, and people that would shove Linux down everyone's throat, that is creating an army of staunch opponents to the adoption of Linux.