I have a full-time job, and I throttle my internet during peak hours; I tend to run a torrent of whatever tv I want to watch, to be available to me the next day. I figure that if it's available on Hulu/ anyhow, what does it matter if I defer the display until later?
Einstein used to construct mental images, which often became the inspiration for his mathematical theories. For instance, a train traveling at c with a headlamp on the front...and somehow, the light from that is moving at c away from the train. From an external perspective, both the train and light beam are moving at c. Obviously, there's time dilation involved....at least, I was always told that he came up with that thought experiment.
Definitely. According to my BMI, I'm at the perfect weight, and even slightly underweight....but try telling that to my spare tire (on the other hand, please don't. I don't want to encourage him).
I understand that there are prices to data throughput, and that maximum throughput correlates with bandwidth. The service providers built themselves a losing battle, though. If they start selling tiered plans, then people will feel limited (even if they never went over 10GB/month before). People that are the heavy users (over 50 GB/month, say) have seen their access available at a certain price point for a long time will feel ripped off when it suddenly jumps to 3x what they have been paying. For instance, I pay $45 per month for a 10mb pipe. I probably do 20-30GB just with tv shows (streaming or downloaded), and my roommate does similar. In the new plan, I'd end up with a higher cost, even though until this point my usage has been acceptable (no warnings, etc). My point is that by subsidizing more expensive users with the money from people that use less, while providing "unlimited" service to people that don't use that much data throughput, they've set themselves up for disappointment in all of their markets.
Some console games nowadays come with a code to download extra content, which can only be used once. The game itself will work if it's pre-played, but the extra content won't.
The Game Boy Micro and Game Boy Light (Japan-only release that was like a GBP with an internal light) come to mind. Again, a size+compatibility-reduced version of a different system, and a feature-enhanced version of another system. Like you said, it all depends on how you count.
Companies want control over what their hardware can do. Nintendo in particular is afraid of not having control over every piece of software released for their consoles. They're worried about their company image, and feel that there is potential for it to be sullied by something that a developer could create.
On a slightly more cynical note, they expect people to pirate software as well as write software that copies commercially released titles, and they want a way to ensure that their software doesn't have to try and compete with free versions of the same thing.
But it's also a format that most people would have to convert their current files from, with a loss to quality, or re-rip their disks to encode into that format.
Flash cartridges and such act like a regular game cartridge as far as the DS is concerned. Current ones use some kind of security hole in the system, and I think the reason they're not suppose to work with the DSi is that the security hole has been closed.
It's a "pushy upgrade" when you've been happy with XP, your new computer is capable of running XP, but you can't get anything but Vista on it. They're forcing an OS choice on you.
A lot of the sites that are used in Korea require Activex controls, making it an infeasible proposition to run anything but IE there. It doesn't surprise me that they'd stick purely to Windows.
It's technically possible. But ARM chips are in a family called "RISC" (Reduced Instruction Set Computing). That means that some things a CISC processor can do in 1 instruction become multiple instructions on a RISC processor. So it runs more instructions to do a given thing, but each instruction is simpler and takes fewer clock ticks to run. Basically, they're completely different beasts, and emulation is gonna be a bitch. I don't think it'd be able to run usably, given relatively low clock speeds that the chips have available to run even native code.
"It" in the previous post was "the ARM processor". "It" in your post is "OS X". That threw me for a loop for a moment. Just thought I'd point it out for whoever reads after me.
Stephenson's Baroque Cycle books were set in the 18th century, and I would consider them science fiction (or any other of about half a dozen genres). Some steampunk might fit into that category as well...using scientific principles and technology as plot devices in an examination of society and humanity.
If we surpass a science fiction story in either technology that we can make in the real world, or stated time period of the story, does it all of a sudden become non-sci fi?
Apparently, the king himself doesn't like the non-insult laws. It's a political thing kept strong by a different group that's not directly related to him, and not under his control.
Not necessarily. Unless you think that the smallest grouping of people is "gamers", instead of differentiating between "gamers with a nostalgic streak" or "gamers who want something new and exciting".
I'd say that the Ubuntu systems are just like any other...except with decent package management with a central repository (but still capable of taking debs from elsewhere), sane defaults, and a generally well-integrated feel that most other Linux systems I've used were missing.
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I have a full-time job, and I throttle my internet during peak hours; I tend to run a torrent of whatever tv I want to watch, to be available to me the next day. I figure that if it's available on Hulu/ anyhow, what does it matter if I defer the display until later?
Einstein used to construct mental images, which often became the inspiration for his mathematical theories. For instance, a train traveling at c with a headlamp on the front...and somehow, the light from that is moving at c away from the train. From an external perspective, both the train and light beam are moving at c. Obviously, there's time dilation involved....at least, I was always told that he came up with that thought experiment.
Definitely. According to my BMI, I'm at the perfect weight, and even slightly underweight....but try telling that to my spare tire (on the other hand, please don't. I don't want to encourage him).
Because the long URLs actually have meaning, which the short ones shed in order to allow brevity.
I understand that there are prices to data throughput, and that maximum throughput correlates with bandwidth. The service providers built themselves a losing battle, though. If they start selling tiered plans, then people will feel limited (even if they never went over 10GB/month before). People that are the heavy users (over 50 GB/month, say) have seen their access available at a certain price point for a long time will feel ripped off when it suddenly jumps to 3x what they have been paying. For instance, I pay $45 per month for a 10mb pipe. I probably do 20-30GB just with tv shows (streaming or downloaded), and my roommate does similar. In the new plan, I'd end up with a higher cost, even though until this point my usage has been acceptable (no warnings, etc). My point is that by subsidizing more expensive users with the money from people that use less, while providing "unlimited" service to people that don't use that much data throughput, they've set themselves up for disappointment in all of their markets.
Some console games nowadays come with a code to download extra content, which can only be used once. The game itself will work if it's pre-played, but the extra content won't.
The Game Boy Micro and Game Boy Light (Japan-only release that was like a GBP with an internal light) come to mind. Again, a size+compatibility-reduced version of a different system, and a feature-enhanced version of another system. Like you said, it all depends on how you count.
Companies want control over what their hardware can do. Nintendo in particular is afraid of not having control over every piece of software released for their consoles. They're worried about their company image, and feel that there is potential for it to be sullied by something that a developer could create.
On a slightly more cynical note, they expect people to pirate software as well as write software that copies commercially released titles, and they want a way to ensure that their software doesn't have to try and compete with free versions of the same thing.
But it's also a format that most people would have to convert their current files from, with a loss to quality, or re-rip their disks to encode into that format.
Flash cartridges and such act like a regular game cartridge as far as the DS is concerned. Current ones use some kind of security hole in the system, and I think the reason they're not suppose to work with the DSi is that the security hole has been closed.
One of the main reasons for release this new DS was to disable the flash cartridges that are around now (or so I've read).
Or...he thinks of the Playboy girl that actually *is* named Morgan Fox...
It's a "pushy upgrade" when you've been happy with XP, your new computer is capable of running XP, but you can't get anything but Vista on it. They're forcing an OS choice on you.
A lot of the sites that are used in Korea require Activex controls, making it an infeasible proposition to run anything but IE there. It doesn't surprise me that they'd stick purely to Windows.
It's technically possible. But ARM chips are in a family called "RISC" (Reduced Instruction Set Computing). That means that some things a CISC processor can do in 1 instruction become multiple instructions on a RISC processor. So it runs more instructions to do a given thing, but each instruction is simpler and takes fewer clock ticks to run. Basically, they're completely different beasts, and emulation is gonna be a bitch. I don't think it'd be able to run usably, given relatively low clock speeds that the chips have available to run even native code.
I think it's running the full kernel, but the GUI has been completely replaced. It seems to me like it's built on the same base, but simplified.
"It" in the previous post was "the ARM processor". "It" in your post is "OS X". That threw me for a loop for a moment. Just thought I'd point it out for whoever reads after me.
Stephenson's Baroque Cycle books were set in the 18th century, and I would consider them science fiction (or any other of about half a dozen genres). Some steampunk might fit into that category as well...using scientific principles and technology as plot devices in an examination of society and humanity.
If we surpass a science fiction story in either technology that we can make in the real world, or stated time period of the story, does it all of a sudden become non-sci fi?
These days, the Thai king is essentially a figurehead. It's like the British royalty; almost all of the power is out of his hands.
Apparently, the king himself doesn't like the non-insult laws. It's a political thing kept strong by a different group that's not directly related to him, and not under his control.
"These are the same people"
Not necessarily. Unless you think that the smallest grouping of people is "gamers", instead of differentiating between "gamers with a nostalgic streak" or "gamers who want something new and exciting".
Why? You can always scale the images larger again, and I think it's more useful to have the original resolution information intact.
I'd say that the Ubuntu systems are just like any other...except with decent package management with a central repository (but still capable of taking debs from elsewhere), sane defaults, and a generally well-integrated feel that most other Linux systems I've used were missing.
I'd say vlc's better, since it plays all the files I need it to, and actually runs on every OS I use.
The GUI is bad? How so? What do you actually have problems doing?