I'm the last person who's going to sit singing Sony's praises, but let's be real here. The damn thing hasn't even been released yet, and we are seeing articles / summaries all over the place telling us how the PS3 has failed, and how they've made huge mistakes with the console.
Meh. There's no point in arguing if you're going to show common sense!
Yes you can - not with a regular triac dimmer though. LEDs work very nicely with PWM drivers (which lights the LED with pulses instead of constant current - more or less the same idea behind "regular" dimmers), and can be dimmed easily that way.
>Yes, it's illegal now, but I'd wager that in the next 20 years we'll see something in the >way of government regulation of legalized personal marijuana.
Dream on. Just because dope smoking students, hippies and rastas want it legalised doesn't mean the whole population thinks its a good idea. It was made illegal for a good reason.
If you publish the specifications of your latest graphics chip for all to see, suddenly your competitors don't have to divert staff from working on next-generation architectures just to reverse-engineer your system. Instead, they can analyze your documentation in a fraction of the time.
Bullshit, sorry. We don't want their beloved silicon blueprints of their latest GPUs, just information on how to make them work. Want to draw a polygon? Send this command to the card. Do a hardware T&L? This other one. You can learn only so much from a driver sourcecode or techincal specifications on how to program a GPU. Don't beleive me? Check the information released by both nVidia and ATI for their older GPUs, and see how much you can infer from them.
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That's not the point. I could postule my own theory about microscopic gremlins holding atoms togheter, and, if physical observations match my theoric results, no one could really argue about its validity. In that sense, string theory could be as valid as any other modern theory.
The most important part of new theories is the verification of predicted results - that's it, things that should happen theoretically but we haven't seen (yet). I don't know about ST, to be honest, but, for example, Heim theory (which aims to be a "theory of everything") made some interesting predictions that haven't been put to test yet; one involved localized antigravity created by rotating electromagnetic fields and another predicted a couple of unseen new particles, if i'm not mistaken. I'd love to see someone try to verify them.
So? This ain't voleyball; physical contact is bound to happen. Yes, Grellas' foul was red card worthy, but it was an isolated incident. I don't even know if it was on purpose, but it was careless.
Can you honestly say that the aussies resorted to fouls in order to control the Brazilian attacks? I saw a terrfic defense work in the first half of the game.
You beated me to it - this Brazil is far, far off from the last world champion; in fact, it has a lot of issues. Expect them to have serious trouble if they keep up this playing in the next round; teams then won't be as forgiving as Croatia an Australia.
BTW, Australia played just fine; the defense did their homework and annulated the Brazilian attacks for the whole first half and part of the second one. They just lack goal, but a tie would've been a much fair result. I still expect to see them coming second in their group.
Oh, come on. Did you see the same match i did? In the first half, the australian defense worked perfectly and drowned the brazilian attacks. Drowned them. On the second half, after the first goal they had to go for the game, which opened a lot of spaces... which Brazil still didn't knew how to exploit. We're still waiting for the Brazil that's supposed to get to the finals in their sleep; despite getting two wins, i'm pretty sure their matches so far have people in their country a bit worried, to say the least. They could run into serious problems if they face a team with a bit more experience.
Anyway, Australia did fine - and deserved a bit more than finishing two goals down. The first half atleast was very well thought from the tactical point of view, and if this software helped them achieve this, well, it worked just peachy.
As for Australia, i agree - it boiled down to individual performances (and physical strength; the speed diference between both teams was staggering). But don't count them off already; they're still second place in the group and have a solid chance of getting into the next round. I've seen a lot of Australian matches (WC classification mainly), and i liked what i saw. A team that plays like a team, always in order, which only lacks a bit on the goal definition. Besides, Aussies are just cool:)
Mates? Friends in Australia, someone you have sex with in the Midwest, and who knows, maybe an officer of a ship in the navy (not having been in it, I don't know:)
Actually, "Mate" is also a very popular infusion in some South American countries, notably Argentina and Uruguay. But again, "football" means the the same both in USA and England. Why does american football is called, well, football is beyond me.
Not at all. I wonder if people played the same game i did when they discuss how good and deep HL2s' story was. Don't take me wrong, it was a very fun ride, but the nonexistant story had nothing to do with it.
The Nintendo DS, a handheld with good but technically inferior power made up for with a large dose of innovation, outsold the PSP, a handheld with many media functions and supirior power, 10 to every 1.
It has little to do with the "power" of the system; it's a game console, and simply put, the public liked the DS games lineup much more than they liked the PSP one. This is the same reason why, IMHO, the Wii will do very well, despite being (only?) slighty more powerful than a GC.
I think that Sony is missing the point if they expect people to shell $600 for a game console just because it does much more than playing games (as it was the argument for the "blu-ray tax").
I don't think they were talking about you. I think they are talking about the kind of immigrants that sneak across the border at night and pick our tomatoes by day. You know, the "bad kind" of immigrant.
That is the part that breaks my mind... so, you're going to tag illegal inmigrants? The ones that should be legally deported? Doesn't make any sense to me.
Seriously though, it is just a beta and not the end result. They're looking for feedback to make improvements and thats a good thing.
All the complaints i've readed about Vista are design issues - unnecesarly high hardware requirements and the endless confirm dialogs specially. These are not bugs or "flaws" in the product; these are design mistakes that won't probably be fixed in the final product. Isn't Vista something like 8 months away from release?
We have this discussion all the time, but once more can't hurt: on single-user Linux systems or Unix workstations, losing $HOME is far more serious than losing system files.
I think you're missing the point. Sure, for most users, losing $HOME is as good as losing their entire harddrive. But $HOME can be very easily backed up - some distros can even be setup to do an automatic backup for you. Or, if you're really paranoid, could even run StarOffice with its very own user. The tools to protect important files are there, you just have to use them.
What's so good about Unix is that the user/system separation is well defined - and well enforced by both the OS and applications. In that sense, it would be almost impossible for a virus or macro to bring down your system or user files if you take basic precautions. Windows, for example, implements similar (if not better) user/system separation models, but most software fail to follow it or enforce it (creating admin accounts by default, software that won't run without admin privileges, etc).
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No, the quests don't get more varied. That's why the jab is that there are only three (or so) types of quests. It's literally true.
Find. Loot. Kill. Report back.
That holds true for 99.9% of MMORPGs out there. I honestly still don't know what people find so appealing about them.
I'm the last person who's going to sit singing Sony's praises, but let's be real here. The damn thing hasn't even been released yet, and we are seeing articles / summaries all over the place telling us how the PS3 has failed, and how they've made huge mistakes with the console.
Meh. There's no point in arguing if you're going to show common sense!
(Great post BTW)
Yes you can - not with a regular triac dimmer though. LEDs work very nicely with PWM drivers (which lights the LED with pulses instead of constant current - more or less the same idea behind "regular" dimmers), and can be dimmed easily that way.
>Yes, it's illegal now, but I'd wager that in the next 20 years we'll see something in the
>way of government regulation of legalized personal marijuana.
Dream on. Just because dope smoking students, hippies and rastas want it legalised doesn't mean the whole population thinks its a good idea. It was made illegal for a good reason.
Which is...?
Best. Comeback. Ever :)
I like the look of this technology.
It's the eyeliner. It doesn't look half as good in the morning.
I honestly beleive she looked better before she had that rack work done.
If you publish the specifications of your latest graphics chip for all to see, suddenly your competitors don't have to divert staff from working on next-generation architectures just to reverse-engineer your system. Instead, they can analyze your documentation in a fraction of the time.
Bullshit, sorry. We don't want their beloved silicon blueprints of their latest GPUs, just information on how to make them work. Want to draw a polygon? Send this command to the card. Do a hardware T&L? This other one. You can learn only so much from a driver sourcecode or techincal specifications on how to program a GPU. Don't beleive me? Check the information released by both nVidia and ATI for their older GPUs, and see how much you can infer from them.
Great review guys!
Modpoints! My kingdom for modpoints!
Don't worry, other media has labeled it correctly!
...i think George Lucas's gonna sue somebody!
That's not the point. I could postule my own theory about microscopic gremlins holding atoms togheter, and, if physical observations match my theoric results, no one could really argue about its validity. In that sense, string theory could be as valid as any other modern theory.
The most important part of new theories is the verification of predicted results - that's it, things that should happen theoretically but we haven't seen (yet). I don't know about ST, to be honest, but, for example, Heim theory (which aims to be a "theory of everything") made some interesting predictions that haven't been put to test yet; one involved localized antigravity created by rotating electromagnetic fields and another predicted a couple of unseen new particles, if i'm not mistaken. I'd love to see someone try to verify them.
Come back, one year!
So? This ain't voleyball; physical contact is bound to happen. Yes, Grellas' foul was red card worthy, but it was an isolated incident. I don't even know if it was on purpose, but it was careless.
Can you honestly say that the aussies resorted to fouls in order to control the Brazilian attacks? I saw a terrfic defense work in the first half of the game.
You beated me to it - this Brazil is far, far off from the last world champion; in fact, it has a lot of issues. Expect them to have serious trouble if they keep up this playing in the next round; teams then won't be as forgiving as Croatia an Australia.
BTW, Australia played just fine; the defense did their homework and annulated the Brazilian attacks for the whole first half and part of the second one. They just lack goal, but a tie would've been a much fair result. I still expect to see them coming second in their group.
Oh, come on. Did you see the same match i did? In the first half, the australian defense worked perfectly and drowned the brazilian attacks. Drowned them. On the second half, after the first goal they had to go for the game, which opened a lot of spaces... which Brazil still didn't knew how to exploit. We're still waiting for the Brazil that's supposed to get to the finals in their sleep; despite getting two wins, i'm pretty sure their matches so far have people in their country a bit worried, to say the least. They could run into serious problems if they face a team with a bit more experience.
:)
Anyway, Australia did fine - and deserved a bit more than finishing two goals down. The first half atleast was very well thought from the tactical point of view, and if this software helped them achieve this, well, it worked just peachy.
As for Australia, i agree - it boiled down to individual performances (and physical strength; the speed diference between both teams was staggering). But don't count them off already; they're still second place in the group and have a solid chance of getting into the next round. I've seen a lot of Australian matches (WC classification mainly), and i liked what i saw. A team that plays like a team, always in order, which only lacks a bit on the goal definition. Besides, Aussies are just cool
For example, you could say "Only idiots would go to Wal-Mart," and "prove" it by saying "Everyone in Wal-Mart is an idiot".
Both statements are true. I don't know where you're going with this...
Mates? Friends in Australia, someone you have sex with in the Midwest, and who knows, maybe an officer of a ship in the navy (not having been in it, I don't know :)
Actually, "Mate" is also a very popular infusion in some South American countries, notably Argentina and Uruguay. But again, "football" means the the same both in USA and England. Why does american football is called, well, football is beyond me.
Not at all. I wonder if people played the same game i did when they discuss how good and deep HL2s' story was. Don't take me wrong, it was a very fun ride, but the nonexistant story had nothing to do with it.
The Nintendo DS, a handheld with good but technically inferior power made up for with a large dose of innovation, outsold the PSP, a handheld with many media functions and supirior power, 10 to every 1.
It has little to do with the "power" of the system; it's a game console, and simply put, the public liked the DS games lineup much more than they liked the PSP one. This is the same reason why, IMHO, the Wii will do very well, despite being (only?) slighty more powerful than a GC.
I think that Sony is missing the point if they expect people to shell $600 for a game console just because it does much more than playing games (as it was the argument for the "blu-ray tax").
I don't think they were talking about you. I think they are talking about the kind of immigrants that sneak across the border at night and pick our tomatoes by day. You know, the "bad kind" of immigrant.
That is the part that breaks my mind... so, you're going to tag illegal inmigrants? The ones that should be legally deported? Doesn't make any sense to me.
Seriously though, it is just a beta and not the end result. They're looking for feedback to make improvements and thats a good thing.
All the complaints i've readed about Vista are design issues - unnecesarly high hardware requirements and the endless confirm dialogs specially. These are not bugs or "flaws" in the product; these are design mistakes that won't probably be fixed in the final product. Isn't Vista something like 8 months away from release?
We have this discussion all the time, but once more can't hurt: on single-user Linux systems or Unix workstations, losing $HOME is far more serious than losing system files.
I think you're missing the point. Sure, for most users, losing $HOME is as good as losing their entire harddrive. But $HOME can be very easily backed up - some distros can even be setup to do an automatic backup for you. Or, if you're really paranoid, could even run StarOffice with its very own user. The tools to protect important files are there, you just have to use them.
What's so good about Unix is that the user/system separation is well defined - and well enforced by both the OS and applications. In that sense, it would be almost impossible for a virus or macro to bring down your system or user files if you take basic precautions. Windows, for example, implements similar (if not better) user/system separation models, but most software fail to follow it or enforce it (creating admin accounts by default, software that won't run without admin privileges, etc).
What did you expect, after grabbing him with his weak arm?