BS, those machines are designed like crap. Why not just RFID everything and just let us walk out? I used to get paid for scanning groceries, now they won't even give me a sale price unless I have some stupid card in my wallet (along with about 20 others). Those scanners suck and you have to type in codes for half the shit. Plus if there's any problem it takes 15 minutes to get some dipshit manager to override it.
My point was: since home entertainment systems have evolved that far outstrip a Cray xmp1, then is it so hard to beleive that industrial chip manufacturing processes have improved dramatically in the last decade as well?
Multi-teraflop processors just for kids to play games on sounds perfectly believable tho, eh? Maybe the guys who make this stuff are smarter than most people can imagine.
I bet the guy doing the interview found it on google cache and just told the interviewee it was the PATRIOT act to jinx him up. Like some college recruiter is going thru the trouble of invoking the patriot act with facebook for some pimply liberal arts major.:P
I've found some astonishingly dumb stuff on google cache myself, all regarding forum trolls who considered themselves anonymous (not this fine forum, of course!)
It is quite possible to hold deep respect for someone but fail to display it adequately. I know because I've made that mistake before. This is the reason for things like dress codes at work and salutes in the military, because miscommunication can happen even with nonverbal signals.
Ironically enough, my pelvis appears to be evolving a snake. It is especially average in the presence of the rare but succulent Asian big breasted female.
Yah right. Maybe someone with vision will make a console for adult males with jobs, as opposed to college students and kids. Maybe it will cost a few hundred bucks and make good use of a several-thousand dollar huge flatscreen HDTV. And maybe then, like the original nintendo, everyone who sees it will say "Wow!"
Did you know that the space shuttle still uses Ram designed in the 1960s? And that it costs millions of dollars, because the only company that still makes it has only 1 customer that has to keep it in business... NASA!
Clearly you haven't seen the preview videos for Killzone or the next Metal Gear ("Uh oh the truck have started to move!").
I agree with you about the blu-ray though. Anyone who has one of these will have an internet hook up, and will expect to get there games and movies through that, not by driving a metal can to a concrete pile and paying money for 5 cents worth of plastic in a 20 dollar box.
I heard Roger Bacon wrote all of Shakespeares stuff. Sure, some say its nuts, but I will defer to Georg Cantor over a bunch of clowns with English degrees any day.
The holocaust was the result of incredibly bad living conditions in Europe as a result of the war. Everything else was just blowing it out of proportion.
There, now CmdrTaco will spend the rest of his life in a prison in Ontario. Seriously.
We would all be a lot freer living in some unexplored jungle, or on a deserted island. Specifically, freer to eke out a meagre survival, living on what we can outfight the animals for. Until we got weak, sick, or unlucky... which would be pretty soon indeed.
My graduation present was a brand new Ford Explorer, paid for in cash (traded it in 8 weeks later for a Hyundai, but thats another thread). Anyhow, the salesman helpfully explained to us that we had to wait half an hour while they ran our names through homeland security, to make sure we werent about to engage in a terrorist act. I was thinking, omfg!
Probably because you cant mount sensors and guns on a live mule and control its every action from the safety and comfort of Ft. Livingroom, plus living things are normally scared of huge explosions and imminent death. Also, live mules look pretty bad all shot the fuck up, but nobody gives 2 shits about some twisted metal.
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That's ridiculous. Here's a good tip tho: for a good time, call 979 487 9868 :D
Slashdot sucks, reddit is what rules!
Yeah I hear those mp3 songs on the internets are really unpopular with the kids these days, and growing moreso every year. :P
BS, those machines are designed like crap. Why not just RFID everything and just let us walk out? I used to get paid for scanning groceries, now they won't even give me a sale price unless I have some stupid card in my wallet (along with about 20 others). Those scanners suck and you have to type in codes for half the shit. Plus if there's any problem it takes 15 minutes to get some dipshit manager to override it.
True dat!
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My point was: since home entertainment systems have evolved that far outstrip a Cray xmp1, then is it so hard to beleive that industrial chip manufacturing processes have improved dramatically in the last decade as well?
Multi-teraflop processors just for kids to play games on sounds perfectly believable tho, eh? Maybe the guys who make this stuff are smarter than most people can imagine.
Hiring people you know beats the hell out of typing their name into google and seeing what comes up, that's for sure.
I bet the guy doing the interview found it on google cache and just told the interviewee it was the PATRIOT act to jinx him up. Like some college recruiter is going thru the trouble of invoking the patriot act with facebook for some pimply liberal arts major. :P
I've found some astonishingly dumb stuff on google cache myself, all regarding forum trolls who considered themselves anonymous (not this fine forum, of course!)
It is quite possible to hold deep respect for someone but fail to display it adequately. I know because I've made that mistake before. This is the reason for things like dress codes at work and salutes in the military, because miscommunication can happen even with nonverbal signals.
Not if you mean to show respect and consideration, you puerile malcontent.
Ironically enough, my pelvis appears to be evolving a snake. It is especially average in the presence of the rare but succulent Asian big breasted female.
I'll personally alert the head of Sony of your opinion, while my secretary calls a shareholder meeting to discuss it.
Yah right. Maybe someone with vision will make a console for adult males with jobs, as opposed to college students and kids. Maybe it will cost a few hundred bucks and make good use of a several-thousand dollar huge flatscreen HDTV. And maybe then, like the original nintendo, everyone who sees it will say "Wow!"
Funny to read a comment like that on one of the 60,000 linux boxes in my (medium sized) data center!
Did you know that the space shuttle still uses Ram designed in the 1960s? And that it costs millions of dollars, because the only company that still makes it has only 1 customer that has to keep it in business... NASA!
Clearly you haven't seen the preview videos for Killzone or the next Metal Gear ("Uh oh the truck have started to move!").
I agree with you about the blu-ray though. Anyone who has one of these will have an internet hook up, and will expect to get there games and movies through that, not by driving a metal can to a concrete pile and paying money for 5 cents worth of plastic in a 20 dollar box.
roflmao good one!
I heard Roger Bacon wrote all of Shakespeares stuff. Sure, some say its nuts, but I will defer to Georg Cantor over a bunch of clowns with English degrees any day.
The holocaust was the result of incredibly bad living conditions in Europe as a result of the war. Everything else was just blowing it out of proportion.
There, now CmdrTaco will spend the rest of his life in a prison in Ontario. Seriously.
mod that shit insightful
We would all be a lot freer living in some unexplored jungle, or on a deserted island. Specifically, freer to eke out a meagre survival, living on what we can outfight the animals for. Until we got weak, sick, or unlucky... which would be pretty soon indeed.
My graduation present was a brand new Ford Explorer, paid for in cash (traded it in 8 weeks later for a Hyundai, but thats another thread). Anyhow, the salesman helpfully explained to us that we had to wait half an hour while they ran our names through homeland security, to make sure we werent about to engage in a terrorist act. I was thinking, omfg!
With an attitude like that, you dont deserve a veteran support badge!
Probably because you cant mount sensors and guns on a live mule and control its every action from the safety and comfort of Ft. Livingroom, plus living things are normally scared of huge explosions and imminent death. Also, live mules look pretty bad all shot the fuck up, but nobody gives 2 shits about some twisted metal.