Without attempting to depreciate his work and Apple's importance, the Apple II was not quite as relevant in other countries. Popularizing of computers took a slightly different path in some other countries, especially the UK, so beware the generalizing statements. RIP Mr Jobs.:(
Lust for reference, you have actually tried it haven't you?
My experience was different. I gave a few demo games a go on a wee lil netbook. Worked a treat. I was very impressed with the graphics quality and lack of lag.
I was ready to slag it off, but it actually worked well. If I could afford it, I'd happily subscribe - cheaper than maintaining a big gaming PC.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see a correlation with the TV digital switchover in the states?
Different technical system, different spacing of population, different time scale, different plan of attack. Plus different population spacing even means the suitability of FM versus AM is different, plus I guess you don't, primarily, have national FM stations? Our digital radio, DAB, is a crap early failed experiment in attempting to replace our national coverage FM stations with an inferior digital system that just never quite worked even though it's had many many years to succeed and there's been a lot of money pushing people to change over. Decoding 2k (?) channels is always going to be more energy costly than decoding 2 I would have thought, and given the importance of cheap reliable tiny portable radios vs the larger expensive battery guzzling digital ones, I can't ever see it becoming a prefered system for everyday people unless they are given no choice.
We chose an early inadequate system, that's been abused and stretched beyond it's limits, implemented far too early on. Even with the codec upgrades in DAB+ I still can't see it making enough difference. It's a poor solution for a non existant problem! Xxx
PS As I type, we're entering the final stages of our TV digital switchover too - that's a whole other conversation though!
They made a fortune from people who are traditionally non-gamers, they aren't stupid.
Don't assume that the kind of titles on the PS3 and XBox 360 suit *all* hardcore gamers.
There's a currently untapped market out there of console gamers who aren't especially FPS obsessed, folk who the current gen consoles have failed. Much like the way that the Wii panders to the low flying fruit of the cutesy tree, the PS3 & 360 are stuck in a an unoriginality rut. There was more gaming variation on the N64, PSX and PS2 than has been produced for the 360. Even the original XBox had a wider selection of titles (mine's still going strong as my media box, xbmc4xbox rox!:)
I've been gaming and coding since the Atari 2600. Yet I've found my purchase of a 360 to be a wee bit disappointing to be frank, as I'm not obsessed with team-based headshots the selection is a bit weak.
Halo 3 was a total pile of shit (sorry, and yes I finished it.) Oblivion was brilliant, but was just more of the same of Morrowind. Orange box was good, but I've always enjoyed the Half-Life series - exception to my FPS rule. Fallout 3 and New Vegas are addictive but just too dark and FPSy for me, plus they.re more addictive than they are fun really.
There's a few okayish Arcade games, but they.re too damned expensive for my pockets - disc based games have the advantage of dropping in price over the years and have second hand markets.
Where's the in depth original stuff?
As a older hardcore gamer I'm feeling really failed by this console generation (of consoles.):(
Yowsers. You've so put me off installing Linux again in future. Mind you, this all exemplifies why I got out of programming. Stopped being a purely logic game, stopped being fun.
Ah! Do you know what happens if you add lots of shielding to try to stop a high speed particle from causing a single bit error?:) Apparently it turns one high speed particle into a shedload of other slightly slower but still stupidly fast particles, that instead cause a shedload of bit errors. (IANARS but I knew one once, and I made the same assumption as you til he corrected me!:) )
> You rattle on about "senior socialist politicians" in Sweden, but you think the major parties in the USA are both right wing?
For a European, that is EXACTLY the way the US looks.
Mod this person up! As a citizen of the UK I'm usually of the same opinion (and that's after decyphering the difference between US and European understandings of political terms, such as Liberals.)
If the test writer used "x" or any
single letter variable (other than i
maybe) I bet you most students
would have correctly answered the
question because it would be
unambiguous that they were being
provided an equality.
You mean you don't think most would have wondered how on earth you'd add a letter and a number???
If I started using the
word 'chicken' to describe that four
wheeled thing you drive to work in,
it'd take you a while to understand
what I was on about, and you might
draw some erroneous conclusions
in the mean time.
And how a person arrived at those conclusions would be very revealing, and might tell us something about that persons understanding of the world - much as this test is attempting to ascertain someone's understand of the equals sign, not their ability to perform solve formal algebra correctly. (I do agree with a poster above, that a ? may have been a better symbol, but perhaps what was actually on the paper was a clear blank space, perhaps underlined, equally clear - it was unlike to have been just "()".)
Mod parent up. Yes, far better way of representing the problem - that'd be clear to both us and people with a pre-algebra understanding, and would still test the understanding of equals just the same.
I agree with the
"solve for x" guy - why reinvent the
standard for equation formatting.
Because it's not a test of algebra, it's aimed at a far lower level, at people who would probably freak at seeing "x" in basic calculations.
It's testing the understanding of an equals sign, and no more!
Most eloquent explanation, one of the few here who "get it" and understand what was being tested. It wasn't a test of someones ability to do algebra, it was a test of their understanding of the equals sign - far more basic!:)
I take it you have not seen the multitudes of local and state government web sites that blindly spout that their web site only works with Internet Explorer. BTW, they have been doing that for well over 10 years.
I certain have, and am not happy! Unfortunately, my local area adult learning service (council run) has this problem - can't access my course materials with Firefox etc.:( When I find myself needing to use such sites, I do normally follow the complaints procedures. To be fair, I have found very with such problems few nowadays. Doesn't stop them being quite crap and with a tendancy to render poorly with anything but the most recent browsers though!
It's incredibly disingenuous to liken the licence fee to income tax or VAT. Choosing not to watch live television transmissions is a hell of a lot easier than living off the grid or on benefits.
But chosing not to watch live television transmission is, I gather, surprisingly hard work, resulting in a LOT of hassle from the licensing authority, so I gather.:(
That made me giggle too.:) Joking aside, in my few international ebay auction, I've had US winners refuse to pay as they did not understand that a UK£1 is not the same thing as US$1, and yes, in US$ it was more expensive than they realised! (Even though I made it clear for them in the auction description.) Yeah yeah, I know its not a US thing - people in general everywhere are stupid.:)
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Bloody hell. Now I remember why I got out of IT. :-(
Opera Mini, Emulated. Seriously!
Without attempting to depreciate his work and Apple's importance, the Apple II was not quite as relevant in other countries. Popularizing of computers took a slightly different path in some other countries, especially the UK, so beware the generalizing statements. RIP Mr Jobs. :(
Lust for reference, you have actually tried it haven't you?
My experience was different. I gave a few demo games a go on a wee lil netbook. Worked a treat. I was very impressed with the graphics quality and lack of lag.
I was ready to slag it off, but it actually worked well. If I could afford it, I'd happily subscribe - cheaper than maintaining a big gaming PC.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see a correlation with the TV digital switchover in the states?
Different technical system, different spacing of population, different time scale, different plan of attack. Plus different population spacing even means the suitability of FM versus AM is different, plus I guess you don't, primarily, have national FM stations? Our digital radio, DAB, is a crap early failed experiment in attempting to replace our national coverage FM stations with an inferior digital system that just never quite worked even though it's had many many years to succeed and there's been a lot of money pushing people to change over. Decoding 2k (?) channels is always going to be more energy costly than decoding 2 I would have thought, and given the importance of cheap reliable tiny portable radios vs the larger expensive battery guzzling digital ones, I can't ever see it becoming a prefered system for everyday people unless they are given no choice.
We chose an early inadequate system, that's been abused and stretched beyond it's limits, implemented far too early on. Even with the codec upgrades in DAB+ I still can't see it making enough difference. It's a poor solution for a non existant problem! Xxx
PS As I type, we're entering the final stages of our TV digital switchover too - that's a whole other conversation though!
...much more efficient swap space! :) This sounds great.
I know it doesn't need to be erased in bulk, but does it need to be written in bulk, or does it have limited read or write cycles?
Ironic given IBMs role in their invention!
(TL;DR Hardcore > FPS)
They made a fortune from people who are traditionally non-gamers, they aren't stupid.
Don't assume that the kind of titles on the PS3 and XBox 360 suit *all* hardcore gamers.
There's a currently untapped market out there of console gamers who aren't especially FPS obsessed, folk who the current gen consoles have failed. Much like the way that the Wii panders to the low flying fruit of the cutesy tree, the PS3 & 360 are stuck in a an unoriginality rut. There was more gaming variation on the N64, PSX and PS2 than has been produced for the 360. Even the original XBox had a wider selection of titles (mine's still going strong as my media box, xbmc4xbox rox! :)
I've been gaming and coding since the Atari 2600. Yet I've found my purchase of a 360 to be a wee bit disappointing to be frank, as I'm not obsessed with team-based headshots the selection is a bit weak.
Halo 3 was a total pile of shit (sorry, and yes I finished it.) Oblivion was brilliant, but was just more of the same of Morrowind. Orange box was good, but I've always enjoyed the Half-Life series - exception to my FPS rule. Fallout 3 and New Vegas are addictive but just too dark and FPSy for me, plus they.re more addictive than they are fun really.
There's a few okayish Arcade games, but they.re too damned expensive for my pockets - disc based games have the advantage of dropping in price over the years and have second hand markets.
Where's the in depth original stuff?
As a older hardcore gamer I'm feeling really failed by this console generation (of consoles.) :(
J x
Just had a look...
Ah, yes! 11000 miles, measured from the centre of the earth, versus...
8000 miles measured from the surface of the earth.
At these distances, the earth's radius is not negligable! HTH.
Those figures actually don't quite add up, by 1 thousand, presumably due to the rounding up and down to nearest thousand.
That's deceptively close, 8000 miles is the diameter of the earth. This thing is only gonna miss us by an earths width!
Another solution to the global food crisis is to stop having massive freakin steaming piles of babies.
No, no, no! You've got it arse over tit. Piles of babies is a good thing. They're a very nutricious food source, especially BBQd. :)
PS Has anyone got a spare handcart I could borrow?
I would say that science is faith with good reason.
Religious faith is faith without reason.
Yowsers. You've so put me off installing Linux again in future. Mind you, this all exemplifies why I got out of programming. Stopped being a purely logic game, stopped being fun.
add extra shielding to compensate....
Ah! Do you know what happens if you add lots of shielding to try to stop a high speed particle from causing a single bit error? :) Apparently it turns one high speed particle into a shedload of other slightly slower but still stupidly fast particles, that instead cause a shedload of bit errors. (IANARS but I knew one once, and I made the same assumption as you til he corrected me! :) )
... and for other British geeks, he was one of the folk that made the BBC Micro!
> You rattle on about "senior socialist politicians" in Sweden, but you think the major parties in the USA are both right wing?
For a European, that is EXACTLY the way the US looks.
Mod this person up! As a citizen of the UK I'm usually of the same opinion (and that's after decyphering the difference between US and European understandings of political terms, such as Liberals.)
but it's always possible.
As is His Noodliness The Flying Spaghetti Monster and a giant celestial teapot floating in space.
If the test writer used "x" or any single letter variable (other than i maybe) I bet you most students would have correctly answered the question because it would be unambiguous that they were being provided an equality.
You mean you don't think most would have wondered how on earth you'd add a letter and a number???
If I started using the word 'chicken' to describe that four wheeled thing you drive to work in, it'd take you a while to understand what I was on about, and you might draw some erroneous conclusions in the mean time.
And how a person arrived at those conclusions would be very revealing, and might tell us something about that persons understanding of the world - much as this test is attempting to ascertain someone's understand of the equals sign, not their ability to perform solve formal algebra correctly. (I do agree with a poster above, that a ? may have been a better symbol, but perhaps what was actually on the paper was a clear blank space, perhaps underlined, equally clear - it was unlike to have been just "()".)
Mod parent up. Yes, far better way of representing the problem - that'd be clear to both us and people with a pre-algebra understanding, and would still test the understanding of equals just the same.
I agree with the "solve for x" guy - why reinvent the standard for equation formatting.
Because it's not a test of algebra, it's aimed at a far lower level, at people who would probably freak at seeing "x" in basic calculations. It's testing the understanding of an equals sign, and no more!
Most eloquent explanation, one of the few here who "get it" and understand what was being tested. It wasn't a test of someones ability to do algebra, it was a test of their understanding of the equals sign - far more basic! :)
I take it you have not seen the multitudes of local and state government web sites that blindly spout that their web site only works with Internet Explorer. BTW, they have been doing that for well over 10 years.
I certain have, and am not happy! Unfortunately, my local area adult learning service (council run) has this problem - can't access my course materials with Firefox etc. :( When I find myself needing to use such sites, I do normally follow the complaints procedures. To be fair, I have found very with such problems few nowadays. Doesn't stop them being quite crap and with a tendancy to render poorly with anything but the most recent browsers though!
It's incredibly disingenuous to liken the licence fee to income tax or VAT. Choosing not to watch live television transmissions is a hell of a lot easier than living off the grid or on benefits.
But chosing not to watch live television transmission is, I gather, surprisingly hard work, resulting in a LOT of hassle from the licensing authority, so I gather. :(
British, UK, taxpayer dollars? Spot the odd one.
That made me giggle too. :) Joking aside, in my few international ebay auction, I've had US winners refuse to pay as they did not understand that a UK£1 is not the same thing as US$1, and yes, in US$ it was more expensive than they realised! (Even though I made it clear for them in the auction description.) Yeah yeah, I know its not a US thing - people in general everywhere are stupid. :)