We can't even successfully navigate the cosmos but we're worried about fuel efficiency. Get to the edge of the solar system and back and then we can talk about light years per gallon.
I'd be curious to know how long it took to backup the 650GB of user data. If it's like how we perform upgrades it's probably over the wire and adds a lot of time for a chunk of data that large. Bear in mind if that's the case the data has to be pulled back down as well.
In Virginia we say "Trawl" kinda like "Yal", if that makes sense. That said, our state and it's western brother are known for doing a lot of things they shouldn't.
..that a lot of these items are going to disappear into the hands of private collectors instead of the museums who should have them? It's sad to think of finds of this caliber not being publicly available. Maybe it's time we energize a little more funding into the arts and history.
It means that instead of being able to mindlessly ding a level in an hour or two you'll really have to work at it. Odds are it will take you much MUCH longer to get from 80-85 than it did to get from 70-80.
1) They either have not done what they claim and their inflated mpg values will be shattered under third-party testing (least likely).
2) Big oil is so deep in peoples pockets that it's more porfitable for companies to get paid off then it is to actually make a car that would dominate the marketplace (most likely).
What I want to know is...how can they create a battery strong enough to power a car for that distance/speed that be charged in 10 minutes but the battery in my cell phone and Blackberry still take no less than 45m.
It doesn't help that the controllers cost an arm and a leg. In tough economic times, if I have to choose between 3 or 4 games and one game with it's proprietary controllers....guess what, I'm getting the former.
That doesn't make any sense. If they really believed the request for repair was made by a competitor, they would have done EVERYTHING to make themselves look as good as possible, which certainly wouldn't have included inflating the bill with unnecessary charges.
If the entire class is essentially available for free digitally (save the actual exam), where is the motivation to create quality study materials? I'm sorry, but book profits are what drives newer and better textbooks into the book stores every year. Will this be a world where the prestige of the position and school you work for as a professor is dictated not only by your lectures, but also by the study material you contribute to the collective? I suspect it might be.
If the far-end is doing all the "hard work", that makes the front-end nothing more then a dummy terminal. How on earth do they expect to stream that kind of imaging data to every console? It's a little differnt when it's TV and you're sending everyone the same thing. I can't even imagine how awful the latency will be. On consoles you don't notice it *as* much because it all looks real-time on your screen, even though you might be a half-secon behind the server, but with this, that delay would be translated on your screen. Imagine trying to navigate a map with complicated movements and every action you perform is lagged by a half second or more. It seems trivial, but it reality it would probably be very disorienting.
The problem with illiciting action is proving risk. No ones going to mitigate a one in a million possibility. However, if you find some near-Earth objects that you can show have a 25% chance of hitting the Earth in the next 50 years, you might see a lot more development in the way of mitigation (or disaster planning at least).
Considering alternative, ad-based, free online video sites such as Hulu, is Amazon's service too pricey?
Much like people are willing to pay extra Nike shows and Callaway golf clubs, people will indeed pay more than a non-established site. They have a good name that people trust. Could they charge less and still make a profit? Sure, but like any good business, you don't leave money sitting on the table.
As good of an idea this is, this wouldn't stand up in PvP. With deteriorating performance based on state, it becomes a contest of who gets the first shot. Any class with ranged or crowd control abilities would dominate every match-up.
Eve is very unique in that there is only one universe. In Warcraft, if you develop a bad name, you can change servers, even change your name. If Eve, you have to make the best (or worst) of whatever lifestyle you choose to follow. As a Lawful Good resident, Eve quickly became a little terrifying since the only way I could expand my experience of the game was to move into less-friendly territory, something I was slightly reluctant to do with a Navy Raven with the best equipment. I suppose I (and others like me) could hop into a clone and take a cheap ship anywhere we wanted and experience that universe, but it just seemed too much like starting over. As more and more people grow into the position I was, we'll probably see an ever growing ratio of pirates to lawful citizens. At that point it will be very interesting to see what direction the game takes. It will probably be a Mad Max world at that point.
Because there's less money to be made doing it that way? Face it...until forced, any for-profit company will always take the path the provides the most cash for the least investment.
We're just trading one type of troll for another. Instead of patent trolling, people will just look for marketable software that they can "make their own". Reverse engineering and cracking will go up and the only net gain will be a decrease in the workload at the patent office.
EA hasn't acquired some small company that it can now manipulate however it sees fit. These are both powerhouses. You can be sure that Blizzard doesn't want to see it's name tarnished and it certainly has the clout and financial backing to pull off the kind of negotiations it needed to during this merger. I suspect that Blizzard wants access to more high-end developers and Activision just wants some of the royalties of Blizzard's cash cow. If that's all that happens (and monthly subscription prices don't go up) I don't see this as a bad thing at all.
Obviously they can't incorporate this into their drivers, but one has to wonder how much they'll look the other way on this. Do they have any legal obligation to stop users from exploiting this (ie. modify their drivers to prevent such mods)? You can be sure they would go out of their way to stop something like that from happening in the other direction.
Relevant original phrase: All's fair in love and war.
Relevant original phrase with 21st century spin: All's fair in love and war so long as you don't knowingly infringe on existing copyrights or patents.
So basically I wouldn't be completely comfortable with it until it reached the nearly-normal stage (and I'll just live without the super-vision upgrade).
Until you live without vision, I think it's difficult to state how you'd really feel about that.
While it's admirable that it's the leanest of the bunch, if I have 2GB of memory and over half of that is unused at the moment, do I really care if my browser uses 25MB instead of 40MB? I would think the speed with which the browser (and subsequent windows) opened, as well as how quickly it loaded plug-ins and other embedded media, would be of more importance.
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We can't even successfully navigate the cosmos but we're worried about fuel efficiency. Get to the edge of the solar system and back and then we can talk about light years per gallon.
I'd be curious to know how long it took to backup the 650GB of user data. If it's like how we perform upgrades it's probably over the wire and adds a lot of time for a chunk of data that large. Bear in mind if that's the case the data has to be pulled back down as well.
In Virginia we say "Trawl" kinda like "Yal", if that makes sense. That said, our state and it's western brother are known for doing a lot of things they shouldn't.
It means that instead of being able to mindlessly ding a level in an hour or two you'll really have to work at it. Odds are it will take you much MUCH longer to get from 80-85 than it did to get from 70-80.
1) They either have not done what they claim and their inflated mpg values will be shattered under third-party testing (least likely).
2) Big oil is so deep in peoples pockets that it's more porfitable for companies to get paid off then it is to actually make a car that would dominate the marketplace (most likely).
What I want to know is...how can they create a battery strong enough to power a car for that distance/speed that be charged in 10 minutes but the battery in my cell phone and Blackberry still take no less than 45m.
The greatest barrier to website use is information overload, kinda like this review.
TLDR
WALL OF TEXT CRITS YOU FOR +5 TROLL
It doesn't help that the controllers cost an arm and a leg. In tough economic times, if I have to choose between 3 or 4 games and one game with it's proprietary controllers....guess what, I'm getting the former.
That doesn't make any sense. If they really believed the request for repair was made by a competitor, they would have done EVERYTHING to make themselves look as good as possible, which certainly wouldn't have included inflating the bill with unnecessary charges.
If the entire class is essentially available for free digitally (save the actual exam), where is the motivation to create quality study materials? I'm sorry, but book profits are what drives newer and better textbooks into the book stores every year. Will this be a world where the prestige of the position and school you work for as a professor is dictated not only by your lectures, but also by the study material you contribute to the collective? I suspect it might be.
If the far-end is doing all the "hard work", that makes the front-end nothing more then a dummy terminal. How on earth do they expect to stream that kind of imaging data to every console? It's a little differnt when it's TV and you're sending everyone the same thing. I can't even imagine how awful the latency will be. On consoles you don't notice it *as* much because it all looks real-time on your screen, even though you might be a half-secon behind the server, but with this, that delay would be translated on your screen. Imagine trying to navigate a map with complicated movements and every action you perform is lagged by a half second or more. It seems trivial, but it reality it would probably be very disorienting.
The problem with illiciting action is proving risk. No ones going to mitigate a one in a million possibility. However, if you find some near-Earth objects that you can show have a 25% chance of hitting the Earth in the next 50 years, you might see a lot more development in the way of mitigation (or disaster planning at least).
That means they averaged >650 items per day (including weekends and holidays) for three straight months.
That's a lot of Mt. Dew.
Considering alternative, ad-based, free online video sites such as Hulu, is Amazon's service too pricey?
Much like people are willing to pay extra Nike shows and Callaway golf clubs, people will indeed pay more than a non-established site. They have a good name that people trust. Could they charge less and still make a profit? Sure, but like any good business, you don't leave money sitting on the table.
As good of an idea this is, this wouldn't stand up in PvP. With deteriorating performance based on state, it becomes a contest of who gets the first shot. Any class with ranged or crowd control abilities would dominate every match-up.
Eve is very unique in that there is only one universe. In Warcraft, if you develop a bad name, you can change servers, even change your name. If Eve, you have to make the best (or worst) of whatever lifestyle you choose to follow. As a Lawful Good resident, Eve quickly became a little terrifying since the only way I could expand my experience of the game was to move into less-friendly territory, something I was slightly reluctant to do with a Navy Raven with the best equipment. I suppose I (and others like me) could hop into a clone and take a cheap ship anywhere we wanted and experience that universe, but it just seemed too much like starting over. As more and more people grow into the position I was, we'll probably see an ever growing ratio of pirates to lawful citizens. At that point it will be very interesting to see what direction the game takes. It will probably be a Mad Max world at that point.
Because there's less money to be made doing it that way? Face it...until forced, any for-profit company will always take the path the provides the most cash for the least investment.
We're just trading one type of troll for another. Instead of patent trolling, people will just look for marketable software that they can "make their own". Reverse engineering and cracking will go up and the only net gain will be a decrease in the workload at the patent office.
As long as clicking links works and the screen can adequetely display fleshtones then I don't really care what else it can do.
"Do we honestly need more rock?"
Actually, we do.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/13/1610210
EA hasn't acquired some small company that it can now manipulate however it sees fit. These are both powerhouses. You can be sure that Blizzard doesn't want to see it's name tarnished and it certainly has the clout and financial backing to pull off the kind of negotiations it needed to during this merger. I suspect that Blizzard wants access to more high-end developers and Activision just wants some of the royalties of Blizzard's cash cow. If that's all that happens (and monthly subscription prices don't go up) I don't see this as a bad thing at all.
Obviously they can't incorporate this into their drivers, but one has to wonder how much they'll look the other way on this. Do they have any legal obligation to stop users from exploiting this (ie. modify their drivers to prevent such mods)? You can be sure they would go out of their way to stop something like that from happening in the other direction.
Relevant original phrase: All's fair in love and war.
Relevant original phrase with 21st century spin: All's fair in love and war so long as you don't knowingly infringe on existing copyrights or patents.
So basically I wouldn't be completely comfortable with it until it reached the nearly-normal stage (and I'll just live without the super-vision upgrade).
Until you live without vision, I think it's difficult to state how you'd really feel about that.
While it's admirable that it's the leanest of the bunch, if I have 2GB of memory and over half of that is unused at the moment, do I really care if my browser uses 25MB instead of 40MB? I would think the speed with which the browser (and subsequent windows) opened, as well as how quickly it loaded plug-ins and other embedded media, would be of more importance.