I haven't read the rest of the comments yet and I'm sure something to this effect has already been said, but I recall pretty vividly being frustrated and bored by how aimless my education had gotten by the end of high school. My senior year, I suddenly found myself in an AP Calculus class which I had positively no interest in but had somehow ascended to by way of being pretty good at Algebra four years ago. I resolved to not learn Calculus under any circumstances, and eventually my guidance counselor called me into her office in mid-semester to inform me that they were just going to drop the class for me (long past the official course drop deadline) and I, cheerfully taking the whole thing to be a joke I'd gotten the better of at this point, agreed. A year later, I was roughly as frustrated with these "gen eds" I found myself stuck with, even as I naturally had no idea what I felt like studying.
I'd just as soon call myself a pretty extreme example - and god knows the schools are trying hard enough to push college acceptance as the most important thing in the history of mankind for your average seventeen-year-old student (which I can reasonably say might as well be now that I'm no longer actively having to call the whole thing a crock on a day-to-day basis to maintain my high-school-dignity) - but this is a decent enough sign that things need to change. Problem is, of course, that I would never in a million years think a ninth-grader capable of making that kind of decision.
(I ended up doubling in Cognitive Science and Film as an undergrad, at a university that had neither department. The degree is, quite fittingly, useless.)
Is anybody else worried about the effect that Aero might have on laptop battery life?
When I buy a laptop, the two things I look for (other than form factor) are a decent videocard and good battery life. Nearly all of these videocards have had some firmware option to underclock such and such when they're not working very hard; i.e. when I am not playing a game.
What's going to happen with Aero?
it's not so much "scratching" as it is "burning a series of tiny little rings in these DVDs as if they were vinyls exactly how fast is this thing spinning jesus christ the disc is actually hot"
wow, that's actually much more processing muscle than i would've expected. heck, the DS runs on something like a 33mhz ARM7 and a 70mhz ARM9.
well, why has nobody done this yet?
right, now let's see this working on the ipod. sure, it's only got two directions instead of four, and just two colors ("on" and "off", as it would happen), but it's got buttons to spare (well, one)...okay, bad idea. but some games (tetris, notably) would actually work.
what kind of processing power does the ipod have, anyway?
f'ing hell. finally cracked and got a mini last week, and now i see that i could have had double the battery life for $50 less. any way i can get this out of them?
While my PS2 makes a regular habit of breaking, and my friend's PS1 had a motor that was at times.. angry, I have to vouch for the quality of their Walkman.
And I mean the CD-playing kind, the kind that were called Discman up until a few years ago, when the original Walkman was no longer relevant. I got one three years ago, and that thing has taken all kinds of abuse. It's been dropped on concrete so many times that the hold switch is smashed in (but still works!), and recently it fell out of my pocket while I was shoveling and was literally full of snow. A half hour of shaking and blow-drying later, the thing was as good as new.
I hate to defend Sony, I really do. But once in a while, they do some good stuff.
i'm still using kazaa lite K++, although the quality of the service has decreased a whole lot the past few years.
i can host a copy of the installer for a short time if anybody wants...
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I haven't read the rest of the comments yet and I'm sure something to this effect has already been said, but I recall pretty vividly being frustrated and bored by how aimless my education had gotten by the end of high school. My senior year, I suddenly found myself in an AP Calculus class which I had positively no interest in but had somehow ascended to by way of being pretty good at Algebra four years ago. I resolved to not learn Calculus under any circumstances, and eventually my guidance counselor called me into her office in mid-semester to inform me that they were just going to drop the class for me (long past the official course drop deadline) and I, cheerfully taking the whole thing to be a joke I'd gotten the better of at this point, agreed. A year later, I was roughly as frustrated with these "gen eds" I found myself stuck with, even as I naturally had no idea what I felt like studying. I'd just as soon call myself a pretty extreme example - and god knows the schools are trying hard enough to push college acceptance as the most important thing in the history of mankind for your average seventeen-year-old student (which I can reasonably say might as well be now that I'm no longer actively having to call the whole thing a crock on a day-to-day basis to maintain my high-school-dignity) - but this is a decent enough sign that things need to change. Problem is, of course, that I would never in a million years think a ninth-grader capable of making that kind of decision. (I ended up doubling in Cognitive Science and Film as an undergrad, at a university that had neither department. The degree is, quite fittingly, useless.)
Is anybody else worried about the effect that Aero might have on laptop battery life? When I buy a laptop, the two things I look for (other than form factor) are a decent videocard and good battery life. Nearly all of these videocards have had some firmware option to underclock such and such when they're not working very hard; i.e. when I am not playing a game. What's going to happen with Aero?
it's not so much "scratching" as it is "burning a series of tiny little rings in these DVDs as if they were vinyls exactly how fast is this thing spinning jesus christ the disc is actually hot"
wow, that's actually much more processing muscle than i would've expected. heck, the DS runs on something like a 33mhz ARM7 and a 70mhz ARM9. well, why has nobody done this yet?
right, now let's see this working on the ipod. sure, it's only got two directions instead of four, and just two colors ("on" and "off", as it would happen), but it's got buttons to spare (well, one). ..okay, bad idea. but some games (tetris, notably) would actually work.
what kind of processing power does the ipod have, anyway?
target.. i think i'll get on that. i called apple, and they did nothing to help me other than inform me that the next time i called, it'd cost $50.
f'ing hell. finally cracked and got a mini last week, and now i see that i could have had double the battery life for $50 less. any way i can get this out of them?
While my PS2 makes a regular habit of breaking, and my friend's PS1 had a motor that was at times.. angry, I have to vouch for the quality of their Walkman. And I mean the CD-playing kind, the kind that were called Discman up until a few years ago, when the original Walkman was no longer relevant. I got one three years ago, and that thing has taken all kinds of abuse. It's been dropped on concrete so many times that the hold switch is smashed in (but still works!), and recently it fell out of my pocket while I was shoveling and was literally full of snow. A half hour of shaking and blow-drying later, the thing was as good as new. I hate to defend Sony, I really do. But once in a while, they do some good stuff.
PS: Forgot to mention, Tycho, you're my favorite writer besides Nick Hornby and the late DNA. And you aren't even English.
Both of you guys.. top five all time games.
i'm still using kazaa lite K++, although the quality of the service has decreased a whole lot the past few years. i can host a copy of the installer for a short time if anybody wants...