The things my cat leaves in her litterbox are more intelligent than the entirety of Digg. And still I go there sometimes, because hey, maybe I wanted to see another LOLcats animation.
Actually I've never wanted to melt into my keyboard and mouse. That seems like it may cause more harm than it helps.
Sarcasm aside, it seems like games are only going the other direction, with the notable exceptions of this game and EVE-Online. I could certainly appreciate more games thinking ahead. One big reason (in my opinion) that they don't is that modern games try to squeeze every erg of power out to drive ever more and more detailed graphics. If the glitz-obsessed gamers and companies could step back from the bleeding edge a notch or two, this "level streaming" thing would be a lot more common-place.
I was going to write a witty reply to this post. But I couldn't figure out what the hell "thebear05" was saying. So I'll settle for this: Learn to use grammar and spelling properly, child. An inability to use correct grammar and to spell right is a mark of an underdeveloped mind. So you're either 12, or a person of towering stupidity. (That's XOR for the boolean logic folks)
Month 1 Week 1 Day 1: use FLV on video-file Day 2: put video-file in intarwebnettubes Day 3: vacation in tahiti Day 4: look intarwebnettubes You see 12 forum posts that approve of the FLV. You see many twisty little posts, all alike in their complaints that you should've used Matroska. You may be eaten by a grue.
No, not really. A majority of that personal-ness comes from a combination of three things: The excessive single-user nature of a Windows PC, the size of the monitor(s), and the fact that's where you keep all your porn. (Are your buddies allowed to look under your mattress at the head of the bed?)
The first is software and the second goes away if you hook it to the big-screen. It would take time and effort. I imagine that the software might suffer from a chicken-and-egg problem. The games won't be written without driver support, and the drivers won't be written without a game that already requires them.
The way to do it is to start up a small gaming company that does this extremely well, then have it bought out by Microsoft. When the watered-down version is released 18 months later, it might still be good enough to play. By then, the Linux hackers will hear about it, and all the penguin games will be rewritten to do multi-player/single-screen stuff too.
It's like AdBlock for the real world! I'll take 200 pairs.
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Well, first of all nobody makes multi-player/single-monitor PC games, because a PC is so much more personal than a console and big-screen TV. But it's just code, right? You can plug multiple USB keyboards/mice into a PC, and the USB hardware reports events with a per-device ID, so if the HID driver's written right you could filter that to actually effect separate player UIs. From there it's as "simple" as writing the game to handle and display multiple separate POVs, and to route input properly.
Unfortunately, I know just enough about windows to know I don't have a clue how easy or difficult this would all actually be.
A larger (by the numbers) military they may have, but in a non-nuclear military confrontation with China, the US forces could absolutely decimate them. There would be NO contest. (In a nuclear fight, of course, nobody wins) The only thing to be concerned about wrt China is the massive quantity of our debt that they own. If they were to dump those bonds on the international market, they could very easily crash our markets. It would be like 1929 all over again.
While one Superbowl ad may cost 2.4million, an average TV spot during primetime is bound to be considerably lower-priced. Secondly, NBC is averaging 5.6 million viewers, a far cry from the Superbowl's 90 million. Another factor is that overall TV viewership is dropping. One could put all that together and consider that this may not be directly a per-episode or per-viewer cost consideration.
NBC might be concerned that affordable access to ad-free versions of their shows will harm something they've worked very hard to program into their viewers: The concept of watching ads to get shows. A glimmer of that danger shows up in this article. Apparently, NBC is already finding it difficult to gain enough advertising to put on good drama during primetime. If the advertising money dries up entirely, NBC--and others--as a company will need to do something very different. The move they've tried to pull is likely to have been an attempt at preserving their business model.
3. *Open* homosexuals are not likely to be Republican congressmen
They're just checking to make sure their astronauts aren't in the closet. I think we all know what kind of damage a Republican congressperson could do up in space. After all, they believe the earth is flat and that mankind sprang fully-formed from the navel of a 10,000-year-old snake god.
Yeah, terabyte media servers are cheaper and nicer every single day. And so easy to get, too. If you know where to look, a pair of 500GB IDE drives will run you about $200. Throw those in an older computer, make sure you've got plenty of cooling in the case, and top with a Linux distro of some kind. For best results with a Windows client PC, get DVD43 and the latest Handbrake to rip your collection. OSX just needs Handbrake, and Linux, I imagine, just needs dvd::rip.
Holey sheeit, son! That machine is faster than all but one of the 10 systems I run at home. The 200mhz AMD-mumble I have running my fileserver must be truely archaic.
...I bet I could convince it to play an mp3 if I could find a sound card for it
FUD. I haven't compiled a kernel since I gave up using Gentoo about 2 years ago. My distro has modules for most hardware supported by the Linux kernel. Every time I boot the machine, the kernel scans the hardware space, loads the required modules and (after some other stuff) passes off to the GUI.
xorg.conf is the only part of my system that needs to be manually altered when I change hardware. And THAT isn't a kernel recompile.
Well, I dunno. As for Iraq, if we responded to every single IED/ambush/mortar attack with a carpet bombing of a randomly selected city, without caring for civilian casualties, I bet you money we'd find Iraq a lot less dangerous for our troops. Overwhelmingly brutal response to attacks tends to either up the ante or impose peace by fear. And in our situation with a technically inferior foe, we have levels of force they can only dream of.
Of course, I'm only an armchair general; my "knowledge" of warfare comes from Star Wars. I figure as long as we just cover up that exhaust port we can't possibly loose.
The use of non-traditional warfare and an unwillingness to brutally slaughter millions of civilians is what prevented a "win" in Vietnam. The same is preventing a "win" in Iraq. And it is those same two elements that would allow a revolution by the American people to succeed. Many would die, but remember the polls: Freedom-lovers outmass Bush toadies by two to one. And you can bet your ass that the next generation of politicians would be a hell of a lot more careful about what rights they infringe.
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The things my cat leaves in her litterbox are more intelligent than the entirety of Digg. And still I go there sometimes, because hey, maybe I wanted to see another LOLcats animation.
There needs to be a "+1, Hell yeah!" option for mods.
Actually I've never wanted to melt into my keyboard and mouse. That seems like it may cause more harm than it helps.
Sarcasm aside, it seems like games are only going the other direction, with the notable exceptions of this game and EVE-Online. I could certainly appreciate more games thinking ahead. One big reason (in my opinion) that they don't is that modern games try to squeeze every erg of power out to drive ever more and more detailed graphics. If the glitz-obsessed gamers and companies could step back from the bleeding edge a notch or two, this "level streaming" thing would be a lot more common-place.
I was going to write a witty reply to this post. But I couldn't figure out what the hell "thebear05" was saying. So I'll settle for this: Learn to use grammar and spelling properly, child. An inability to use correct grammar and to spell right is a mark of an underdeveloped mind. So you're either 12, or a person of towering stupidity. (That's XOR for the boolean logic folks)
I believe the convention of notation to be H-1 and O-16. As written, yours indicates a 16-1 ratio of Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms.
Month 1
Week 1
Day 1: use FLV on video-file
Day 2: put video-file in intarwebnettubes
Day 3: vacation in tahiti
Day 4: look intarwebnettubes
You see 12 forum posts that approve of the FLV. You see many twisty little posts, all alike in their complaints that you should've used Matroska. You may be eaten by a grue.
Allow me to point out two solutions to your conundrum:& near=San+Francisco&z=13
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&q=Used+book+store
news://alt.binaries.e-book
No, not really. A majority of that personal-ness comes from a combination of three things: The excessive single-user nature of a Windows PC, the size of the monitor(s), and the fact that's where you keep all your porn. (Are your buddies allowed to look under your mattress at the head of the bed?)
The first is software and the second goes away if you hook it to the big-screen. It would take time and effort. I imagine that the software might suffer from a chicken-and-egg problem. The games won't be written without driver support, and the drivers won't be written without a game that already requires them.
The way to do it is to start up a small gaming company that does this extremely well, then have it bought out by Microsoft. When the watered-down version is released 18 months later, it might still be good enough to play. By then, the Linux hackers will hear about it, and all the penguin games will be rewritten to do multi-player/single-screen stuff too.
It's like AdBlock for the real world! I'll take 200 pairs.
Well, first of all nobody makes multi-player/single-monitor PC games, because a PC is so much more personal than a console and big-screen TV. But it's just code, right? You can plug multiple USB keyboards/mice into a PC, and the USB hardware reports events with a per-device ID, so if the HID driver's written right you could filter that to actually effect separate player UIs. From there it's as "simple" as writing the game to handle and display multiple separate POVs, and to route input properly.
Unfortunately, I know just enough about windows to know I don't have a clue how easy or difficult this would all actually be.
A larger (by the numbers) military they may have, but in a non-nuclear military confrontation with China, the US forces could absolutely decimate them. There would be NO contest. (In a nuclear fight, of course, nobody wins) The only thing to be concerned about wrt China is the massive quantity of our debt that they own. If they were to dump those bonds on the international market, they could very easily crash our markets. It would be like 1929 all over again.
Nah, it's not even close to accurate. Sub guys don't do the monogamous relationship thing. It'd be 400 pairs/triples/man-orgies.
While one Superbowl ad may cost 2.4million, an average TV spot during primetime is bound to be considerably lower-priced. Secondly, NBC is averaging 5.6 million viewers, a far cry from the Superbowl's 90 million. Another factor is that overall TV viewership is dropping. One could put all that together and consider that this may not be directly a per-episode or per-viewer cost consideration.
NBC might be concerned that affordable access to ad-free versions of their shows will harm something they've worked very hard to program into their viewers: The concept of watching ads to get shows. A glimmer of that danger shows up in this article. Apparently, NBC is already finding it difficult to gain enough advertising to put on good drama during primetime. If the advertising money dries up entirely, NBC--and others--as a company will need to do something very different. The move they've tried to pull is likely to have been an attempt at preserving their business model.
3. *Open* homosexuals are not likely to be Republican congressmen
They're just checking to make sure their astronauts aren't in the closet. I think we all know what kind of damage a Republican congressperson could do up in space. After all, they believe the earth is flat and that mankind sprang fully-formed from the navel of a 10,000-year-old snake god.
/me waves.
Yeah, terabyte media servers are cheaper and nicer every single day. And so easy to get, too. If you know where to look, a pair of 500GB IDE drives will run you about $200. Throw those in an older computer, make sure you've got plenty of cooling in the case, and top with a Linux distro of some kind. For best results with a Windows client PC, get DVD43 and the latest Handbrake to rip your collection. OSX just needs Handbrake, and Linux, I imagine, just needs dvd::rip.
I read that book when I was 12. Quite a good read, I thought. I should go find my copy again.
That's okay. Most US Christians will just get that tax back on their April 15th refund...living below the poverty line does have that one benefit.
rather old PC*
...I bet I could convince it to play an mp3 if I could find a sound card for it
*Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB DDR
Holey sheeit, son! That machine is faster than all but one of the 10 systems I run at home. The 200mhz AMD-mumble I have running my fileserver must be truely archaic.
FUD.
I haven't compiled a kernel since I gave up using Gentoo about 2 years ago. My distro has modules for most hardware supported by the Linux kernel. Every time I boot the machine, the kernel scans the hardware space, loads the required modules and (after some other stuff) passes off to the GUI.
xorg.conf is the only part of my system that needs to be manually altered when I change hardware. And THAT isn't a kernel recompile.
Are you nuts? Nobody on Slashdot RTFAs.
I loves this post.
Yep.
But a microphone that's playing a pounding house rhythm doesn't, err, microphone very well.
Well, I dunno. As for Iraq, if we responded to every single IED/ambush/mortar attack with a carpet bombing of a randomly selected city, without caring for civilian casualties, I bet you money we'd find Iraq a lot less dangerous for our troops. Overwhelmingly brutal response to attacks tends to either up the ante or impose peace by fear. And in our situation with a technically inferior foe, we have levels of force they can only dream of.
Of course, I'm only an armchair general; my "knowledge" of warfare comes from Star Wars. I figure as long as we just cover up that exhaust port we can't possibly loose.
The use of non-traditional warfare and an unwillingness to brutally slaughter millions of civilians is what prevented a "win" in Vietnam. The same is preventing a "win" in Iraq. And it is those same two elements that would allow a revolution by the American people to succeed. Many would die, but remember the polls: Freedom-lovers outmass Bush toadies by two to one. And you can bet your ass that the next generation of politicians would be a hell of a lot more careful about what rights they infringe.
At least, that's what I hope.
You know what? I've just read back over your posting history. You're a Microsoft shill or worse. I've got better things to do with my time.
*plonk*