> genre can help you cut out a lot of those 3000 songs
Or would do if ID3 had a "Progressive Metal" genre....gah! You end up having to decide whether it'd be more appropriate to mark it as Progressive Rock, Metal or Heavy Metal. The biggest problem with automated tagging is the bizarre and usually limiting selection of genres.
It looks like a new viewing option. I'm not sure what the grey ones are - possibly articles in other sections that wouldn't otherwise make the front page (as someone else suggested).
Have a look at your preferences - there's a new part in the front page section that lets you choose whether or not to display the grey bars, or whether to show the full stories for all, grey bars for all, etc.
it is there - XP Pro lets you access your machine via RDP. It's single user - i.e. connecting via RDP locks out the console user, and accessing via the console disconnects the RDP user - but it works very well. I believe RDP is used in the remote assistance stuff too, which is even available in XP Home - so the functionality is definitely there in essence.
But the point you're missing is that the 360 won't be $400 forever - you've labled the 360 as a console for hardcore gamers, but that's true of any new system. There's always an early adopter phase, then the price goes down and more and more people buy it. Sure, it's unlikely to ever be as cheap as the Revolution, but Nintendo are effectively taking themselves out of the competition - they're creating themselves a new category where they can't be compared directly to the 360 or the PS3.
> While you're playing on an old school gamepad, Revolution gamers will be using a 3D input. Or I could be using 3D input too....having just looked in to it, it seems that people are expecting $150ish to be the Revolution's price. If Nintendo can make money on that, then they might well have found their place - by making a console that you could quite easily justify buying _as well as_ a 360 and / or PS3, without being "hardcore". I know I'll be considering it strongly if there's any games that appeal to me in its lineup.
I bought a PS2 on launch day here in Australia. I, along with thousands of others payed $AU750 for it.
Go and do the exchange rate conversion and tell me again that no one will buy a console that costs that much. In fact, I got the impression that people very much _are_ buying the 360, and Microsoft isn't really mouring the loss of your dollars.
When I bought the PS2, I could have payed much less than that and bought a PSOne, a Dreamcast, or an N64, but I didn't want one of those, I wanted a PS2. So did the thousands of others that bought it.
People will, and _have_ payed that much for the latest console. Those that won't will buy it in a year's time when the price has dropped - and by the time the PS3 and Revolution are out, you can guarantee the XBox360 will be ready for a price drop, and will remain competative.
The interesting thing though, is that when the original XBox was introduced in Australia, it was actually cheaper than the PS2 was at launch time, and people still thought it was too expensive - the PS2 had dropped in price a little by then, and it had a whole library of games (not to mention the PSOne games that still worked), and as a result, Microsoft ended up slashing the price by a huge margin very soon after launch - they even refunded those customers that had bought it at the higher price. By the time the Gamecube finally reached Australia (it arrived last by a long way), no one was interested in it at any price, and as a result it's done very poorly here. When you hit the market first, you get to set the price, and people _will_ pay it. (within reason, and $US400 is within reason).
The Revolution is going to be a hard sell, it's probably going to _have_ to be $US200 or less for anyone to want to buy it - the new controller might generate enough interest to keep Nintendo in the game, and will probably win them plenty of acclaim (or could possibly have the whole platform written off as a gimmick - who knows?), but they're not going to crawl out of third place.
thank you, that was kind of what I was trying to say.
It's not graphics or lack thereof that make a game good, it's the fact that it's a good game. The reason why some people think that old games were better, is because they only remember the good old games - not because "back then they had to rely on gameplay".
There's no formula that says "gameplay = 1 - graphics" It is entirely possible to have a game that looks good and plays well. It's also very possible to have a game that looks bad and plays bad. And plenty of old games were bad. The classics are classics because they were good, not just because they're old and don't have the same graphical quality as modern games.
Quite a lot of classics actually did have excellent graphics for their time, and it was one of the things that contributed to their classic status in the first place.
gah..I can't believe that. I even previewed - and then happily clicked on submit before my mind processed the fact that I'd gone and used BB tags. need more coffee...
yes, because the article is not talking about computers causing people to smoke and drink. It's talking about how people turn to alcohol and cigarettes when stressed. It barely mentions computers at all, and mostly talks about the smoking and drinking bit.
Being concerned about good use of language does not make one a troll, and correcting someone who is giving incorrect advice is absolutely not a troll. (though I'll concede that calling someone a dumbass in the process probably is). So your project to trap all the "grammar trolls" is rather misconceived - if you find spelling or grammar corrections distract you that much, then use your mod points when you have them to mod those posts off topic. Otherwise, don't be childish.
Your.sig is such that it is likely to get responses from pretty much anyone that sees it, even those that would not normally bother correcting word misuse.
Comparable as in "You can compare them", not comparable as in "Pretty much exactly the same". The difference was a good 10% at least, and I'd rather use the CPU cycles it was using just to access the hard drive to do real stuff with. The USB2 performance was pretty good, but I'm certainly not going to plug the drive in using the USB cable when I can use the FireWire cable and have performance that's excellent.
Also, the Moore's law apology is terrible. Windows XP is slower than 2000 but Moore's law makes that not matter, WinModems use CPU cycles but Moore's law makes that not matter, USB2.0 is more processor intensive than FireWire but Moore's law makes that not matter.
I don't know about you, but I want a machine that runs at it's best _now_, and not wait another year or two for a machine that will run as fast with all the inefficient software and CPU bound hardware attached to it as a current machine with better software and hardware - not to mention that hardware that requires lots of CPU help also contributes to bottlenecks on the system busses, and system bandwidth doesn't usually increase at the same rate as CPU speed.
BTW, my computer is an Intel based laptop (with intel's 915 mobile chipset) - you'd think Intel would be able to get USB right. But in any case, no one cares what numbers say the performance should be, what matters is what the performance actually _is_, so unless your statement about USB and FireWire speed is backed with real world experience, then it's meaningless - it doesn't even reach the slashdot standard level of unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence that my post does;)
Nope, the speeds are not equivalent, not even at FireWire 400 speeds.
I have an external hard drive with both USB and FireWire ports on it, and benchmarking that shows that using the FireWire port is not only faster than USB, but uses significantly less CPU at the same time. No numbers because I can't be bothered running the tests again - but if you have a device with both USB2 and FireWire, then give it a go and you'll see...
Those users should not _ever_ be installing _any_ operating system.
EVER.
They should buy a machine pre-configured, and if it breaks they should pay someone to fix it. Or they should shut up and actually learn about the equipment before fucking with it.
There is practically no XML in Tapestry 4, except for when you _want_ to use it to make things cleaner...
You can have a Tapestry page with just a single HTML template, or a single Java class, or you can have all three of template,.page descriptor and Java class if you want.
I originally tried Tapestry in the 2.x time, and whilst I loved the concept, I found the fact that each new page required an XML descriptor _and_ an addition to the main config file to be way too much overhead. But that's all gone now....
I've tried seaside, and I did like the idea of it, and I rather like smalltalk from the small amount I've dealt with it, but I _know_ java. I know the platform, and I know what third party libraries are out there. So in the end I'm going to use Java. (Plus most J2EE app servers are far more production proven than squeak - though there are a couple of other smalltalk implementations that may be more suitable for production purposes) There does happen to be a seaside like framework for Java called lakeside (or lakeshore or something...), but I don't think it ever got out of prototype stage....
You're retro-fitting a word, and then complaining that the definition of the word doesn't match the item you're attempting to cram it on to.
A weblog is a weblog, it is not a "log", it is a blog. A blog is simply a web page consisting of multiple individual "posts" in chronilogical order. Any resemblence to anything else is purely coincidental.
Incidentally, in the real world, even the most personal and self-indulgent form of diary is still actually a type of log. (but that doesn't matter, because we're talking about blogs, not logs)
"CNN has an article" does not actually say anything about the source - all it says is that they have an article they have the rights to publish, which they do.
If the post had said "CNN have written an article" then it would be wrong, but there's nothing wrong with saying they have it.
it's different technology, it's not the same as CD so therefore not everything to do with CD can be applied to DVD.
Sure, it's an optical drive, but there's still plenty of things different between them that could certainly have an effect on the useful life of the drive.
Also, I have never even heard of the band "The Bangles" Then I'm afraid you've just shown that "All my life" is less than 20 years. Probably less than 15.
Either that, or you spent all that life in a cave. A cave with no music.
At the risk of redundancy I'll agree about "transferbangle" - though I've only been in Australia 14 years, but I'm sure we would have heard of it in NZ too if it actually did exist.
Why do people obssess about pointers? Are you sure _that's_ what bothers you? Or is it manual memory management that bothers you? You can have manual memory management without C style pointers, and you can have garbage collection _with_ C style pointers.
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> genre can help you cut out a lot of those 3000 songs
Or would do if ID3 had a "Progressive Metal" genre....gah! You end up having to decide whether it'd be more appropriate to mark it as Progressive Rock, Metal or Heavy Metal.
The biggest problem with automated tagging is the bizarre and usually limiting selection of genres.
It looks like a new viewing option.
I'm not sure what the grey ones are - possibly articles in other sections that wouldn't otherwise make the front page (as someone else suggested).
Have a look at your preferences - there's a new part in the front page section that lets you choose whether or not to display the grey bars, or whether to show the full stories for all, grey bars for all, etc.
it is there - XP Pro lets you access your machine via RDP. It's single user - i.e. connecting via RDP locks out the console user, and accessing via the console disconnects the RDP user - but it works very well.
I believe RDP is used in the remote assistance stuff too, which is even available in XP Home - so the functionality is definitely there in essence.
But the point you're missing is that the 360 won't be $400 forever - you've labled the 360 as a console for hardcore gamers, but that's true of any new system. There's always an early adopter phase, then the price goes down and more and more people buy it.
Sure, it's unlikely to ever be as cheap as the Revolution, but Nintendo are effectively taking themselves out of the competition - they're creating themselves a new category where they can't be compared directly to the 360 or the PS3.
> While you're playing on an old school gamepad, Revolution gamers will be using a 3D input.
Or I could be using 3D input too....having just looked in to it, it seems that people are expecting $150ish to be the Revolution's price. If Nintendo can make money on that, then they might well have found their place - by making a console that you could quite easily justify buying _as well as_ a 360 and / or PS3, without being "hardcore".
I know I'll be considering it strongly if there's any games that appeal to me in its lineup.
I bought a PS2 on launch day here in Australia.
I, along with thousands of others payed $AU750 for it.
Go and do the exchange rate conversion and tell me again that no one will buy a console that costs that much. In fact, I got the impression that people very much _are_ buying the 360, and Microsoft isn't really mouring the loss of your dollars.
When I bought the PS2, I could have payed much less than that and bought a PSOne, a Dreamcast, or an N64, but I didn't want one of those, I wanted a PS2. So did the thousands of others that bought it.
People will, and _have_ payed that much for the latest console. Those that won't will buy it in a year's time when the price has dropped - and by the time the PS3 and Revolution are out, you can guarantee the XBox360 will be ready for a price drop, and will remain competative.
The interesting thing though, is that when the original XBox was introduced in Australia, it was actually cheaper than the PS2 was at launch time, and people still thought it was too expensive - the PS2 had dropped in price a little by then, and it had a whole library of games (not to mention the PSOne games that still worked), and as a result, Microsoft ended up slashing the price by a huge margin very soon after launch - they even refunded those customers that had bought it at the higher price.
By the time the Gamecube finally reached Australia (it arrived last by a long way), no one was interested in it at any price, and as a result it's done very poorly here.
When you hit the market first, you get to set the price, and people _will_ pay it. (within reason, and $US400 is within reason).
The Revolution is going to be a hard sell, it's probably going to _have_ to be $US200 or less for anyone to want to buy it - the new controller might generate enough interest to keep Nintendo in the game, and will probably win them plenty of acclaim (or could possibly have the whole platform written off as a gimmick - who knows?), but they're not going to crawl out of third place.
thank you, that was kind of what I was trying to say.
It's not graphics or lack thereof that make a game good, it's the fact that it's a good game.
The reason why some people think that old games were better, is because they only remember the good old games - not because "back then they had to rely on gameplay".
no. actually it doesn't.
There's no formula that says "gameplay = 1 - graphics"
It is entirely possible to have a game that looks good and plays well.
It's also very possible to have a game that looks bad and plays bad. And plenty of old games were bad. The classics are classics because they were good, not just because they're old and don't have the same graphical quality as modern games.
Quite a lot of classics actually did have excellent graphics for their time, and it was one of the things that contributed to their classic status in the first place.
Hence why the release won't happen until the issues are sorted out.
gah..I can't believe that.
I even previewed - and then happily clicked on submit before my mind processed the fact that I'd gone and used BB tags.
need more coffee...
But this doesn't have anything to do with ignorance of [i]the law[/i].
No.
.NET competitor.
EJB is just one part of J2EE which is the closest thing to a
You can do J2EE without EJB (and in most cases, probably should).
yes, because the article is not talking about computers causing people to smoke and drink.
It's talking about how people turn to alcohol and cigarettes when stressed. It barely mentions computers at all, and mostly talks about the smoking and drinking bit.
Being concerned about good use of language does not make one a troll, and correcting someone who is giving incorrect advice is absolutely not a troll. (though I'll concede that calling someone a dumbass in the process probably is).
.sig is such that it is likely to get responses from pretty much anyone that sees it, even those that would not normally bother correcting word misuse.
So your project to trap all the "grammar trolls" is rather misconceived - if you find spelling or grammar corrections distract you that much, then use your mod points when you have them to mod those posts off topic. Otherwise, don't be childish.
Your
Comparable as in "You can compare them", not comparable as in "Pretty much exactly the same". The difference was a good 10% at least, and I'd rather use the CPU cycles it was using just to access the hard drive to do real stuff with.
;)
The USB2 performance was pretty good, but I'm certainly not going to plug the drive in using the USB cable when I can use the FireWire cable and have performance that's excellent.
Also, the Moore's law apology is terrible.
Windows XP is slower than 2000 but Moore's law makes that not matter, WinModems use CPU cycles but Moore's law makes that not matter, USB2.0 is more processor intensive than FireWire but Moore's law makes that not matter.
I don't know about you, but I want a machine that runs at it's best _now_, and not wait another year or two for a machine that will run as fast with all the inefficient software and CPU bound hardware attached to it as a current machine with better software and hardware - not to mention that hardware that requires lots of CPU help also contributes to bottlenecks on the system busses, and system bandwidth doesn't usually increase at the same rate as CPU speed.
BTW, my computer is an Intel based laptop (with intel's 915 mobile chipset) - you'd think Intel would be able to get USB right.
But in any case, no one cares what numbers say the performance should be, what matters is what the performance actually _is_, so unless your statement about USB and FireWire speed is backed with real world experience, then it's meaningless - it doesn't even reach the slashdot standard level of unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence that my post does
Nope, the speeds are not equivalent, not even at FireWire 400 speeds.
I have an external hard drive with both USB and FireWire ports on it, and benchmarking that shows that using the FireWire port is not only faster than USB, but uses significantly less CPU at the same time.
No numbers because I can't be bothered running the tests again - but if you have a device with both USB2 and FireWire, then give it a go and you'll see...
Those users should not _ever_ be installing _any_ operating system.
EVER.
They should buy a machine pre-configured, and if it breaks they should pay someone to fix it.
Or they should shut up and actually learn about the equipment before fucking with it.
There is practically no XML in Tapestry 4, except for when you _want_ to use it to make things cleaner...
.page descriptor and Java class if you want.
You can have a Tapestry page with just a single HTML template, or a single Java class, or you can have all three of template,
I originally tried Tapestry in the 2.x time, and whilst I loved the concept, I found the fact that each new page required an XML descriptor _and_ an addition to the main config file to be way too much overhead.
But that's all gone now....
I've tried seaside, and I did like the idea of it, and I rather like smalltalk from the small amount I've dealt with it, but I _know_ java. I know the platform, and I know what third party libraries are out there. So in the end I'm going to use Java. (Plus most J2EE app servers are far more production proven than squeak - though there are a couple of other smalltalk implementations that may be more suitable for production purposes)
There does happen to be a seaside like framework for Java called lakeside (or lakeshore or something...), but I don't think it ever got out of prototype stage....
No, I won't.
You're retro-fitting a word, and then complaining that the definition of the word doesn't match the item you're attempting to cram it on to.
A weblog is a weblog, it is not a "log", it is a blog. A blog is simply a web page consisting of multiple individual "posts" in chronilogical order.
Any resemblence to anything else is purely coincidental.
Incidentally, in the real world, even the most personal and self-indulgent form of diary is still actually a type of log. (but that doesn't matter, because we're talking about blogs, not logs)
"CNN has an article" does not actually say anything about the source - all it says is that they have an article they have the rights to publish, which they do.
If the post had said "CNN have written an article" then it would be wrong, but there's nothing wrong with saying they have it.
it's different technology, it's not the same as CD so therefore not everything to do with CD can be applied to DVD.
Sure, it's an optical drive, but there's still plenty of things different between them that could certainly have an effect on the useful life of the drive.
Also, I have never even heard of the band "The Bangles"
Then I'm afraid you've just shown that "All my life" is less than 20 years.
Probably less than 15.
Either that, or you spent all that life in a cave.
A cave with no music.
At the risk of redundancy I'll agree about "transferbangle" - though I've only been in Australia 14 years, but I'm sure we would have heard of it in NZ too if it actually did exist.
* We do not fuck sheep, people who do that are called New Zealanders.
But only by Australians, and only because that's just how their minds work.
BTW, that rant was funnier and more actually accurate last time I saw it.
Not to mention the fact that a CD drive, no matter how old, is not a DVD drive
Why do people obssess about pointers?
Are you sure _that's_ what bothers you? Or is it manual memory management that bothers you?
You can have manual memory management without C style pointers, and you can have garbage collection _with_ C style pointers.