I can definetly agree. I worked at Best Buy customer service for just over a year and the stupidity of the average human astounds me. People tear up their reciepts for their plasma televisions between the cash registers and the door, shocked that someone might want evidence that they actually paid for the $6500 box in their cart.
I think my personal favorite, however, was a person who took out their credit card to pay, rubbed the FRONT of the card against the SCREEN of the little pin pad, and then yelled at me about how a multi-billion dollar company can't afford good cash registers! Dealing with stupidity like that on a daily basis can be, literally, mind-numbing.
I recently attended a presentation at U of I by an AMD Senior VP who, when asked, said that all that centrino was was an expensive advertising campaign. Manufacturers/Assemblers got to put the "Centrino" sticker on their product if they buy both a CPU and 802.11 chip from Intel and therefore benefit from tv ads of people setting up desks in medows. Of course, this was an AMD VP talking....
Definetly agree.
We need to realize what actually is and isn't a bad influence on everybody (face it, kids aren't the only ones to condone violence because they are over-exposed to it). Profanity only has power if we grant it power, and censoring it is the fastest way to do that. There's nothing wrong with saying "oh shit" if we say that there isn't, but murder is always wrong.
Basically, the FCC needs to censor and rate less on content and more on themes. Murder seems to be ok if you don't show the actual murder scene, and that just doesn't make sense. It works the same way for drug use, robbery, arsen, you name it.
I'd much prefer to walk down the halls of a high school and hear "fuck, that test was hard" than "Darn, that was a hard test, I'd like to kill Mr. Smith for giving it to us."
As for the noise produced by ASUS DIGIMatrix system, I have to stress that it is very low compared with the level of noise generated by regular desktops or "cubic" mini-systems. Even when the fans rotate at their maximum, the noise level never goes beyond 30dB. For your information: the regular desktop systems generate about 50dB of noise. 50db? That seems pretty loud for a pc... I know mine runs around 40 and it still gets pretty damn annoying during a movie when there is the all-too-pivotal silent scene right at the end. You need some other kind of cooling in there, like water cooling with a no-moving-parts pump. Fan noise is one of the big things that ruins media center PCs now.
The future of video games won't be a death (or even slow decay), it'll be a change in direction. PC/Console games are starting to reach an asymptote in terms of quality of gameplay, graphics, etc. and we're going to be playing the same types of games in the future as we are now.
No, the future of game development is to stretch where they go: we'll be playing doom on cell phones in a year or two, and GTA:VC type games five years after that. It won't be about playing better games, it'll be about playing good games in better places.
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I can definetly agree. I worked at Best Buy customer service for just over a year and the stupidity of the average human astounds me. People tear up their reciepts for their plasma televisions between the cash registers and the door, shocked that someone might want evidence that they actually paid for the $6500 box in their cart.
I think my personal favorite, however, was a person who took out their credit card to pay, rubbed the FRONT of the card against the SCREEN of the little pin pad, and then yelled at me about how a multi-billion dollar company can't afford good cash registers! Dealing with stupidity like that on a daily basis can be, literally, mind-numbing.
I recently attended a presentation at U of I by an AMD Senior VP who, when asked, said that all that centrino was was an expensive advertising campaign. Manufacturers/Assemblers got to put the "Centrino" sticker on their product if they buy both a CPU and 802.11 chip from Intel and therefore benefit from tv ads of people setting up desks in medows. Of course, this was an AMD VP talking....
We need to realize what actually is and isn't a bad influence on everybody (face it, kids aren't the only ones to condone violence because they are over-exposed to it). Profanity only has power if we grant it power, and censoring it is the fastest way to do that. There's nothing wrong with saying "oh shit" if we say that there isn't, but murder is always wrong.
Basically, the FCC needs to censor and rate less on content and more on themes. Murder seems to be ok if you don't show the actual murder scene, and that just doesn't make sense. It works the same way for drug use, robbery, arsen, you name it.
I'd much prefer to walk down the halls of a high school and hear "fuck, that test was hard" than "Darn, that was a hard test, I'd like to kill Mr. Smith for giving it to us."
No, no it needs to be eXtreme, with a captical 'X'. Capital letters make everything more eXtreme!
This is a feature of Kernel 2.6.... after 15 hours you need at least the 2 minute break while you restart so you can learn to blink again.
As for the noise produced by ASUS DIGIMatrix system, I have to stress that it is very low compared with the level of noise generated by regular desktops or "cubic" mini-systems. Even when the fans rotate at their maximum, the noise level never goes beyond 30dB. For your information: the regular desktop systems generate about 50dB of noise. 50db? That seems pretty loud for a pc... I know mine runs around 40 and it still gets pretty damn annoying during a movie when there is the all-too-pivotal silent scene right at the end. You need some other kind of cooling in there, like water cooling with a no-moving-parts pump. Fan noise is one of the big things that ruins media center PCs now.
The future of video games won't be a death (or even slow decay), it'll be a change in direction. PC/Console games are starting to reach an asymptote in terms of quality of gameplay, graphics, etc. and we're going to be playing the same types of games in the future as we are now. No, the future of game development is to stretch where they go: we'll be playing doom on cell phones in a year or two, and GTA:VC type games five years after that. It won't be about playing better games, it'll be about playing good games in better places.