Regardless of what the De Beers group wants you to think, diamonds are not that rare. Carbon is the most common element around.
Still, its kinda nifty to see such a large chunk of the stuff.
Exactly how did you see it?
The scientist are just basicly guessing it's made of diamond, they don't actually really know. Sure, it's an educated guess, but whats the harm? Not like we can go verify it.
Way back when, the aliens landed. they needed a work force, but the locals (neanderthals) were too stupid, and the alien's genetically made workforce, kept dying to diseases.
So they spliced/mated their work force with the neanderthals to make, well, us.
hmm, i wonder if i get a really bad hair do, i can get on an episode of Ancient Aliens...
While camera equipment is getting cheaper, I wonder what it would cost the police department to have the newspapers run the names or pictures or whatever of the red stop runnies.
In this day of people wanting to be famous for anything, i would think getting your name in the paper would be a good start.
Even though I don't qualify as an Apple Fanboy, Steve's impact on the world of computing is felt everyday by all of us.
While Xerox PARC did the original GUI environment, and invented little things like the Mouse, Steve's vision with the Mac changed the computer world. It made computer accessible, influencing Windows and other OSs to make their system accessible to the masses.
Apple, Next, Pixar, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPads.
I believe Steve made the world better.
That's weird, I believe Woz made the world better.
Jobs? Not really. And Mac were pretty expensive when they came out and honestly, that really hasn't changed much. Now the last three you listed, the iCrap stuff, were actually accessible products for the masses.
In my experience, if you want seats next to people you know, you have to buy up a whole bunch at the same time, and even then, it's usually hard to get more then 2 seats together, if that. Mainly if what you are going to is popular, or like a one night show.
Seeing as we have very little written evidence from back when the major religons we created (thought up, made up, etc), i find it hard to believe that we also have evidence that suddenly wide spread diseases.
What is more likely, that more people were starting to live together, ie, tribes got bigger, joined up with others, and more people created not only the religons, but the diseases that goes with living amoungst a bunch of people.
I'm glad they are going to be cheap. I'm going to get one if possible (i'm disabled on disablity, don't get much money a month) because no one else is hitting the $100 tablet niche, which I think would sell like crazy.
I don't want it to do everything, i have a computer for that. But it would let me read comics/magazines on the go.
and seriously, that's all i really care about.
While I'd use it as an ebook reader, I'm waiting to pick up a kindle for really cheap for that. I like the screen for reading on it and the battery life it has.
The PS3 had no games for four years after launch, except MGS4.
The PSP still doesn't have any games.
It's funny because Sony really courted developers in the PSX/PS2 days and let everybody develop for relatively cheap. As a result both systems had enormous software libraries. I don't know why they dropped that strategy for the PS3 and PSP. Wouldn't you want to repeat a working formula?
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This is the worse Troll attempt I have every seen. You new the interwebs?
The raw RAM number hardly matters as much as how it is applied in a phone. If Android has been filled with bloatware requiring you to root the phone to get rid of it, then a gig of RAM won't do much good. If it's efficient, half that can run games quite well. Also, look at the actual RAM of some gaming systems and you'll be surprised at how little it takes.
While your basicly correct, it seems maybe you don't pay attention to the developers for handheld/console programmers.
In fact, memory is usually why most things get cut, or left out (not talking storage space, i'm talking about keeping different textures in memory, doing AA, etc) because tradionally, consoles/handhelds have had very little memory.
Putting 512m in for a handheld with a decent size screen is more then sweet, it means they can display more stuff, better looking stuff and even apply some AA.
Also means they can have better AI also.
You probably don't care about homebrew, but a bunch of people do, and when your emulating other systems, yes, more ram does help. I'm excited to see what the homebrew community is going to come up with for the Vita (yes, it will be broken).
Of course, your post talks about phones, which, as I understand, this isn't a phone. But your wrong on that phone thing also. It's not really much different.
What you are calling ram, seems to be flash memory, not ram. You know most phones use flash memory to store apps/os and crap in and run it off that, not unlike Palm handhelds of yesteryears. They also have "traditional" ram that they use for running programs, and trust me, it's a lot less then the flash memory in your phone. That "bloatware" is usually just stupid apps that are installed on the phone, that are taking up flash memory space, but not really taking up the running memory (unless of course, they are apps that are actually running on boot up, or you started one up).
But when it comes to programming the game, the dev needs to know how much memory they have to work with (cpu & gpu), so they can plan their textures and other stuff accordingly.
If you have 32mb of memory, you'll have to fit everything in the 32mb, unless you want to do slow ass swapping all the time.
So, 512mb is a big deal, because it gives developers a lot of breathing room to make stuff better.
Also, going to point out because there are a bunch of different phones with different amounts of memory (and cpu's/gpu's), that most devs have to program for the lowest common denominator. So if you put out an Android phone that has 512mb of memory, while most phones have 128mb, games are going to be programmed for the 128mb memory limitation. And if you have a hard time grokking that, then look at how games released on the Xbox 360/PS3/PC are made. That is, made for the consoles and then given a crude port to the PC, even though the PC have way more memory, have better graphics, etc.
No matter what some people try to claim, it's not a hack.
Running linux on a dreamcast? thats a hack.
Getting your gamecube running linux? That's a hack.
Getting your Palm Pilot to run linux? that's a hack.
Getting an 386 computer running linux is NOT a hack, linux is made to run on 386+ computers. Sure, it takes more work to get it to run on a 386, but it ain't a hack.
If the company has its way, there will be three ways to access a printer in the future: The first will be via a conventional software driver. The second will be via a cloud service and the third will be via a driverless access method that supports 'universal' printing from any type device."
Lets look at that quote.
3 ways to access the printer in the future.
1st way is a "software driver" which oddly enough, is what we call a Printer Driver.
Doesn't seem to me they are trying to get rid of it.
ya, ya, i know #2 is the "iCloud" which would have printer drivers on the computers connected to the "cloud", and #3 is the meat of the article, basicly printers built with a universal "api" inside, instead of having to have special drivers on the computer. ya, that would be nice, but I don't see it really happening.
I just like how the summary and crap makes it seem like they are doing away with the printer drivers when it's listed as a way to access the printers in the future. Ya, i'd post that as anonymous also.
If i had a grudge against humans, or a certain set of humans, or something really stupid like that and I wanted to do something that will get me remembered, for whatever reason, in the history of man, I'd do some crap just like this. Make up a "manifesto" of probably gibberish, encyrpted and whatnot, so peeps would spend many hours of discussion and get me remembered.
So do we think we'll get a better understanding of the dude who killed those people by figuring out his stupid manifesto? And that will help his victims how exactly? I mean, i'm sure their families are probably helping figure this manifesto out and twitting it to all their friends. (yes, i'm being fucking sarcastic here).
Crazy people are, well, crazy. It doesn't matter their reason for doing stuff like killing people. That shit ain't cool, and shouldn't be going on, no matter the reason. But very little we will do, will stop the crazies from doing the crazy shit.
Sometimes there are signs, and sometime we recognize crazy before crazy gets killing. But most the time, we don't. We don't realize that crazy is just under the skin of that person we talk shit to all the time. We don't realize that everyone has crazy in them, and sometimes, the littlest things set crazy off.
Of course, i could be wrong. This murder might have the answer to life, the universe and everything in his manifesto. And even if it did, it's not worth our time trying to find out. Dude went out and killed a bunch of people to get attention for his manifesto and here people are, giving it attention.
what dude did worked, and your showing that to every wanna be "terrorist" with a grudge against something and a chip on their shoulder, that if you want attention, kill some peeps and you'll get it.
Seriously, when you hear the term "flash mobs" what comes to your mind?
To me, it's a large group of people, flashing. You know, whipping open some trench coats and showing their privates.
So I guess I can understand, why these spontainous performance people are called flash mobs, seeing as they tend to wear trench coats, but instead of flashing some naughty bits, they perform something for us.
Cool, i can live with that.
But how does people using text messages to communicate coordination between different people make it a flash mob? I'm pretty sure if me and all my friends text each other so we could meet up, we don't call that a flash mob when we all end up at the party/whatever together and pull out our pipes and weed (or whatever).
I'm getting tired of peeps taking terms and trying to invent new usages for them. It's like there isn't enough words, or letters, or combinations of those to make up new sayings for stuff, instead of taking recent new sayings and trying to make them into something else.
Unlimited should mean just that. NOT limited. Flash Mob should be used when a group of people coordinate an surprise performance somewhere.
My first thought was they still make PCs with game ports? My second thought was I wonder what they are using the game port for that it gets ruined... My third thought was I've been playing games on my PC for a long time... My fourth thought was I wonder if I can get Tie Fighter working on windows 7
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Regardless of what the De Beers group wants you to think, diamonds are not that rare. Carbon is the most common element around.
Still, its kinda nifty to see such a large chunk of the stuff.
Exactly how did you see it?
The scientist are just basicly guessing it's made of diamond, they don't actually really know. Sure, it's an educated guess, but whats the harm? Not like we can go verify it.
Real Alternative.
Damn'd. Now RealNetworks will confiscate all the /. servers. See what have you done?
I'm not sure that is a bad thing anymore.
Wow, who would of thought that technology that has been helping the police can be used against them?
I'm sorry, who is surprised here? Because I'm sure as fuck not.
Way back when, the aliens landed. they needed a work force, but the locals (neanderthals) were too stupid, and the alien's genetically made workforce, kept dying to diseases.
So they spliced/mated their work force with the neanderthals to make, well, us.
hmm, i wonder if i get a really bad hair do, i can get on an episode of Ancient Aliens...
+1 Informative.
Yes, only on slashdot could that post get (at my time of posting) +4 Informative.
... Fortunately, someone got it on video and it caused the people to protest and force him to go to jail...
This is how you get change.
Protesting scares government.
While camera equipment is getting cheaper, I wonder what it would cost the police department to have the newspapers run the names or pictures or whatever of the red stop runnies.
In this day of people wanting to be famous for anything, i would think getting your name in the paper would be a good start.
Even though I don't qualify as an Apple Fanboy, Steve's impact on the world of computing is felt everyday by all of us.
While Xerox PARC did the original GUI environment, and invented little things like the Mouse, Steve's vision with the Mac changed the computer world. It made computer accessible, influencing Windows and other OSs to make their system accessible to the masses.
Apple, Next, Pixar, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPads.
I believe Steve made the world better.
That's weird, I believe Woz made the world better.
Jobs? Not really. And Mac were pretty expensive when they came out and honestly, that really hasn't changed much. Now the last three you listed, the iCrap stuff, were actually accessible products for the masses.
In my experience, if you want seats next to people you know, you have to buy up a whole bunch at the same time, and even then, it's usually hard to get more then 2 seats together, if that. Mainly if what you are going to is popular, or like a one night show.
I find this interesting.
Seeing as we have very little written evidence from back when the major religons we created (thought up, made up, etc), i find it hard to believe that we also have evidence that suddenly wide spread diseases.
What is more likely, that more people were starting to live together, ie, tribes got bigger, joined up with others, and more people created not only the religons, but the diseases that goes with living amoungst a bunch of people.
Online education is ok, but there's no substitute for being able to ask questions in realtime and address issues with an actual teacher.
You mean during those lectures where there's like 300+ students in the room? Yes, the prof/teacher loves to stop to answer everyone's questions.
I'm glad they are going to be cheap. I'm going to get one if possible (i'm disabled on disablity, don't get much money a month) because no one else is hitting the $100 tablet niche, which I think would sell like crazy.
I don't want it to do everything, i have a computer for that. But it would let me read comics/magazines on the go.
and seriously, that's all i really care about.
While I'd use it as an ebook reader, I'm waiting to pick up a kindle for really cheap for that. I like the screen for reading on it and the battery life it has.
...
The fact that independent bookstores go downhill is not a surprise, and they have to adapt and think of other ways to make money.
Yep, same with Mom & Pop Grocery Stores, or for that matter, Small Businesses.
to avoid taking those tests or letting the government know how smart I am (or am not).
=)
The PS3 had no games for four years after launch, except MGS4.
The PSP still doesn't have any games.
It's funny because Sony really courted developers in the PSX/PS2 days and let everybody develop for relatively cheap. As a result both systems had enormous software libraries. I don't know why they dropped that strategy for the PS3 and PSP. Wouldn't you want to repeat a working formula?
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This is the worse Troll attempt I have every seen. You new the interwebs?
The raw RAM number hardly matters as much as how it is applied in a phone. If Android has been filled with bloatware requiring you to root the phone to get rid of it, then a gig of RAM won't do much good. If it's efficient, half that can run games quite well. Also, look at the actual RAM of some gaming systems and you'll be surprised at how little it takes.
While your basicly correct, it seems maybe you don't pay attention to the developers for handheld/console programmers.
In fact, memory is usually why most things get cut, or left out (not talking storage space, i'm talking about keeping different textures in memory, doing AA, etc) because tradionally, consoles/handhelds have had very little memory.
Putting 512m in for a handheld with a decent size screen is more then sweet, it means they can display more stuff, better looking stuff and even apply some AA.
Also means they can have better AI also.
You probably don't care about homebrew, but a bunch of people do, and when your emulating other systems, yes, more ram does help. I'm excited to see what the homebrew community is going to come up with for the Vita (yes, it will be broken).
Of course, your post talks about phones, which, as I understand, this isn't a phone. But your wrong on that phone thing also. It's not really much different.
What you are calling ram, seems to be flash memory, not ram. You know most phones use flash memory to store apps/os and crap in and run it off that, not unlike Palm handhelds of yesteryears. They also have "traditional" ram that they use for running programs, and trust me, it's a lot less then the flash memory in your phone. That "bloatware" is usually just stupid apps that are installed on the phone, that are taking up flash memory space, but not really taking up the running memory (unless of course, they are apps that are actually running on boot up, or you started one up).
But when it comes to programming the game, the dev needs to know how much memory they have to work with (cpu & gpu), so they can plan their textures and other stuff accordingly.
If you have 32mb of memory, you'll have to fit everything in the 32mb, unless you want to do slow ass swapping all the time.
So, 512mb is a big deal, because it gives developers a lot of breathing room to make stuff better.
Also, going to point out because there are a bunch of different phones with different amounts of memory (and cpu's/gpu's), that most devs have to program for the lowest common denominator. So if you put out an Android phone that has 512mb of memory, while most phones have 128mb, games are going to be programmed for the 128mb memory limitation. And if you have a hard time grokking that, then look at how games released on the Xbox 360/PS3/PC are made. That is, made for the consoles and then given a crude port to the PC, even though the PC have way more memory, have better graphics, etc.
I'm not reading "high times", I'd rather not see this sort of junk.
Then grow some thick skin and ignore it.
While you might think the world evolves around you, it doesn't. In fact, most of us don't even care what you think.
Sorry, did that hurt?
Seriously though, i don't give a fuck that you don't care about this. It's science and it's news.
Oh, and oddly enough, a lot of people smoke weed and don't see any problems with it. I know that hurts ya, but deal with it.
Found it!
If you no longer even own your full OS and require "pushed OS code at boot time" the Cloud Scam will be complete!
ya, that will work.
no internet? no booting your system.
No, this is not a hack.
No matter what some people try to claim, it's not a hack.
Running linux on a dreamcast? thats a hack.
Getting your gamecube running linux? That's a hack.
Getting your Palm Pilot to run linux? that's a hack.
Getting an 386 computer running linux is NOT a hack, linux is made to run on 386+ computers. Sure, it takes more work to get it to run on a 386, but it ain't a hack.
Or at least, that's how I see it.
If the company has its way, there will be three ways to access a printer in the future: The first will be via a conventional software driver. The second will be via a cloud service and the third will be via a driverless access method that supports 'universal' printing from any type device."
Lets look at that quote.
3 ways to access the printer in the future.
1st way is a "software driver" which oddly enough, is what we call a Printer Driver.
Doesn't seem to me they are trying to get rid of it.
ya, ya, i know #2 is the "iCloud" which would have printer drivers on the computers connected to the "cloud", and #3 is the meat of the article, basicly printers built with a universal "api" inside, instead of having to have special drivers on the computer. ya, that would be nice, but I don't see it really happening.
I just like how the summary and crap makes it seem like they are doing away with the printer drivers when it's listed as a way to access the printers in the future. Ya, i'd post that as anonymous also.
... in my mom's basement. And of course I'm way too fat to leave...
Here's the problem:
If i had a grudge against humans, or a certain set of humans, or something really stupid like that and I wanted to do something that will get me remembered, for whatever reason, in the history of man, I'd do some crap just like this. Make up a "manifesto" of probably gibberish, encyrpted and whatnot, so peeps would spend many hours of discussion and get me remembered.
So do we think we'll get a better understanding of the dude who killed those people by figuring out his stupid manifesto? And that will help his victims how exactly? I mean, i'm sure their families are probably helping figure this manifesto out and twitting it to all their friends. (yes, i'm being fucking sarcastic here).
Crazy people are, well, crazy. It doesn't matter their reason for doing stuff like killing people. That shit ain't cool, and shouldn't be going on, no matter the reason. But very little we will do, will stop the crazies from doing the crazy shit.
Sometimes there are signs, and sometime we recognize crazy before crazy gets killing. But most the time, we don't. We don't realize that crazy is just under the skin of that person we talk shit to all the time. We don't realize that everyone has crazy in them, and sometimes, the littlest things set crazy off.
Of course, i could be wrong. This murder might have the answer to life, the universe and everything in his manifesto. And even if it did, it's not worth our time trying to find out. Dude went out and killed a bunch of people to get attention for his manifesto and here people are, giving it attention.
what dude did worked, and your showing that to every wanna be "terrorist" with a grudge against something and a chip on their shoulder, that if you want attention, kill some peeps and you'll get it.
Seriously, when you hear the term "flash mobs" what comes to your mind?
To me, it's a large group of people, flashing. You know, whipping open some trench coats and showing their privates.
So I guess I can understand, why these spontainous performance people are called flash mobs, seeing as they tend to wear trench coats, but instead of flashing some naughty bits, they perform something for us.
Cool, i can live with that.
But how does people using text messages to communicate coordination between different people make it a flash mob?
I'm pretty sure if me and all my friends text each other so we could meet up, we don't call that a flash mob when we all end up at the party/whatever together and pull out our pipes and weed (or whatever).
I'm getting tired of peeps taking terms and trying to invent new usages for them. It's like there isn't enough words, or letters, or combinations of those to make up new sayings for stuff, instead of taking recent new sayings and trying to make them into something else.
Unlimited should mean just that. NOT limited.
Flash Mob should be used when a group of people coordinate an surprise performance somewhere.
am I asking for too much?
You can't do much pirating with a slow connection, ....
You are new to the pirate scene, aren't you?
I read this as "How To Ruin Your PC's Game Port"
My first thought was they still make PCs with game ports?
My second thought was I wonder what they are using the game port for that it gets ruined...
My third thought was I've been playing games on my PC for a long time...
My fourth thought was I wonder if I can get Tie Fighter working on windows 7
Xwing Alliance works for me fine.