well, the a data center run by amazon certainly has more rigorous backup and maintenance schedules than anything I could personally come up with, offhand
AR Games - Now, this is where I think the 3DS shines. Forget the 3D, the AR stuff and motion controls are where the good games are going to be. I know it's been done before, but something like the PS Eye or Kinect is not nearly a immersive or "touchable" as the 3DS, they're like a mirror, where as this is a window and for me, it's just better. I want to see more games like this.
Hmm, if the most compelling use of the 3DS is for low-resolution copies of iPhone/iPad games, then I think Nintendo might be in a bit of trouble.
It's Nintendo that doesn't understand the 3DS. You've built a device with about a 5-degree usable viewing angle, and you've put motion control in the blasted thing. I know Nintendo has a long history of throwing a bunch of shit at the wall and quickly abandoning whatever doesn't stick, but really?
Same here. Though we've got lots more iPhones, iPads, and Android phones in their place. Hmm... (And I haven't seen a single Windows Phone 7 device yet.)
It's even nicer working at a place that sells used/refurb IT gear. Main file server is down? No sweat, I'll just stroll out to the warehouse, grab a new RAID controller, and be up and running again in ten minutes. (Yes, we've had that sort of thing happen - hardware failure is just about the least of our worries around here when we have a spare for nearly everything in every one of our servers.)
And how many KB of source code was that? Care to venture a guess how that compares to the Windows XP code base, and the associated cost of maintenance?
Meijer doesn't have them, but they seem to harvest your info anyway. Whenever I buy a fair amount of groceries there, the coupon printer at the checkout always seems to know what sort of things I would buy, even if I haven't gotten any on that visit. It's a little creepy at times.
Weird. There are enough patterns and repetitions to make it look like it's just something simple, like a substitution cipher or similar. The sequence 'NCBE' appears enough times to be statistically meaningful, I'd wager.
Back when they first announced this game they hadn't even invented computers yet.
Yeah, it was somewhere in Leviticus, wasn't it? It had a big two-page spread and everything. That couldn't have been cheap, especially without any printing press.
I hate handwriting input, personally. I'd much rather have a keyboard for text input (except in those rare occasions where I need to enter an unfamiliar Japanese character or something). So in this regard, a multi-touch screen like on the iPad would provide a better keyboard than a stylus-driven Wacom digitizer on a traditional tablet PC.
And I don't have an iPad (yet), but even with my tiny little iPhone, I do a fair amount of remote desktop and other administrative tasks, so it seems like a viable option at this point.
The big problem with Wikipedia articles on anything remotely technical is that they aren't written to be read by a layman, but rather are written by a bunch of specialists in the field all having a big circle-jerk with their collective knowledge. If you need the information that's present in the article, then chances are you can't make heads or tails of it - likewise, if you can actually understand what's in the article, then you probably already know most of what it's about.
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Now bring back one of the models the scientists/engineers will care about, like the 15C or 42S.
Activision will have to include it in COD Modern Warfare 17, due out sometime in 2012.
This is Slashdot. We don't bash teh loonix here.
What's next, wallhack?
I don't think I would admit to listening to a Canadian hip-hop station, even to make a valid point such as that.
Let me laugh even harder.
Yeah. It's kind of like how you can bolt just about any part onto just about any car if you think it through enough.
And a fat lot of good that did.
Hmm, if the most compelling use of the 3DS is for low-resolution copies of iPhone/iPad games, then I think Nintendo might be in a bit of trouble.
It's Nintendo that doesn't understand the 3DS. You've built a device with about a 5-degree usable viewing angle, and you've put motion control in the blasted thing. I know Nintendo has a long history of throwing a bunch of shit at the wall and quickly abandoning whatever doesn't stick, but really?
He will be buried in a flimsy plastic case that will crack if you look at it wrong.
Same here. Though we've got lots more iPhones, iPads, and Android phones in their place. Hmm... (And I haven't seen a single Windows Phone 7 device yet.)
It's even nicer working at a place that sells used/refurb IT gear. Main file server is down? No sweat, I'll just stroll out to the warehouse, grab a new RAID controller, and be up and running again in ten minutes. (Yes, we've had that sort of thing happen - hardware failure is just about the least of our worries around here when we have a spare for nearly everything in every one of our servers.)
And how many KB of source code was that? Care to venture a guess how that compares to the Windows XP code base, and the associated cost of maintenance?
April 3: China Detects 10 Cases of Radiation Contamination
April 4: New Dinosaur Species Found In China
...Or is China about to becme totally awesome?
Meijer doesn't have them, but they seem to harvest your info anyway. Whenever I buy a fair amount of groceries there, the coupon printer at the checkout always seems to know what sort of things I would buy, even if I haven't gotten any on that visit. It's a little creepy at times.
Weird. There are enough patterns and repetitions to make it look like it's just something simple, like a substitution cipher or similar. The sequence 'NCBE' appears enough times to be statistically meaningful, I'd wager.
Yes I do. I have one. Writing off OO completely for first year students seems rather unhelpful, in my opinion.
I guess they want to build a nice moat to go with their ivory tower.
Back when they first announced this game they hadn't even invented computers yet.
Yeah, it was somewhere in Leviticus, wasn't it? It had a big two-page spread and everything. That couldn't have been cheap, especially without any printing press.
Advocates say the change could substantially improve the flavor of PepsiCo soft drinks.
Yeah, but vivid, surreal hallucinations are a reasonable substitute for "something else".
I hate handwriting input, personally. I'd much rather have a keyboard for text input (except in those rare occasions where I need to enter an unfamiliar Japanese character or something). So in this regard, a multi-touch screen like on the iPad would provide a better keyboard than a stylus-driven Wacom digitizer on a traditional tablet PC.
And I don't have an iPad (yet), but even with my tiny little iPhone, I do a fair amount of remote desktop and other administrative tasks, so it seems like a viable option at this point.
Wow, you know you've pissed somebody off when burning houses on surfboards are trying to kill you.
The big problem with Wikipedia articles on anything remotely technical is that they aren't written to be read by a layman, but rather are written by a bunch of specialists in the field all having a big circle-jerk with their collective knowledge. If you need the information that's present in the article, then chances are you can't make heads or tails of it - likewise, if you can actually understand what's in the article, then you probably already know most of what it's about.