But the reason most console exclusive games on PS3/360 are exclusive, is not the difficulty of porting the games, but because the console makers pay for the exclusivity, or simply own the studios (like Sony owns Naught Dog).
Which isn't really relevant. It doesn't matter WHY the games are exclusive - just that some games are. If you want to play them you have to either pony up for the console or find another way (eg, emulation).
I actually had a 360 for the entirety of the previous generation (just because it was cheaper) and was fine with that except for exclusives, so this past Black Friday I picked up one of the cheap PS3 bundles and have been using that to work through the back catalog of exclusive titles (The Last of Us, the Uncharted series, Ni-No-Kuni, Kingdom Hearts Remix, etc).
This generation PS4 is actually the cheaper console, so I'm guessing I'll get that over XB One, but unless the emulation catches up I'm sure I'll buy one of those (much) later for the same reason.
Well, mass and size get thrown around a lot semi-interchangeably which they're most definitely not.
80x the MASS of Jupiter and something becomes a star, but the established theory IIRC was that until you get to that point you keep cramming things in and the planet itself just kinda compresses more and doesn't get much bigger than Jupiter. If it ever gets big enough to become a star and achieve fusion then the pressure pushes it out and then it gets better.
So if it is as the summary says and the planet is literally 11 times the size of Jupiter then that's quite a find. It basically says that there's either something wrong with either a) our understanding of planet formation or b) there's something wrong with how we measured this and the data is just wrong.
If its 11 times the mass then yeah - kind of boring and expected.
Exactly. The smart people will believe it's too expensive or not the right time to raise kids while the stupid people will fuck for fun and then have a bunch of kids. Soon there won't be any smart people left and the problem will be solved.
I'm not much of a cop movie fan anyways, but if anything movies show police as having too broad of powers compared to real life.
They may have a more difficult time handling the case if questions arise, but you're an idiot if you think a cop needs permission to do something in some parking lot in the town he's employed by. It doesn't work that way.
Sorry, but there are actual laws, and they do matter. Law enforcement has specific bounds that they have to work within. Specifically to South Carolina, the law is 23-1-15. Without that police can look into a criminal case but they cannot enforce any traffic laws within the area.
Any real property which is used as a parking lot and is open to use by the public for motor vehicle traffic shall be within the police jurisdiction with regard to the unlawful operation of motor vehicles in such parking lot.
Such parking lots shall be posted with appropriate signs to inform the public that the area is subject to police jurisdiction with regard to unlawful operation of motor vehicles. The extension of police jurisdiction to such areas shall not be effective until the signs are posted.
This might be the case -- but did the school call the police because they saw someone plugging into their power outlet, or did the policeman do this "in the public good"? If the second, he has no jurisdiction
Not necessarily. I don't know about GA, but next door here in SC there are a lot of parking lots have notices that state "This parking lot under the jurisdiction of XYZ Police Department.". Basically that grants the police department jurisdiction over the parking lot even though its privately owned property. If the school does that then the police do have jurisdiction there.
I actually work for a county so we're directly affiliated with the sheriff's department but even we grant jurisdiction to the town police department rather than having our own patrol vehicles watching the parking lot.
There are plenty of places that sell non-ethanol gas. In particular if you go near a marina they're more common as boat engines specifically tend to not get along with the ethanol.
No, but a wallet is significantly thicker. It also has to fold in order to reduce money to a more pocketable size(unless we redesign our paper bills to be the size of credit cards - which actually may be a good idea).
If my wallet were the size of a cell phone and didn't fold I'd have no problems with a rigid one - heck I'd probably prefer it. Things get pretty beat up in there as it is.
I'm with you there. It particularly seems odd considering that one of the primary adjectives used to describe a device of low quality is "flimsy".
Flexing in most construction implies weakness/lack of durability (whether or not it does here is somewhat irrelevant - the human mind is largely set to think of flexing as bad). Just seems like a strange "feature" to add.
What you're describing sounds like one of those crazy scenario's that Asimov describe as to why AI's eventually kill their masters. The point being that the AI lacks common sense and is just rigidly following some instruction that they've extrapolated into something it was never meant to be.
Except that he's not a fucking robot. He's a person that is supposed to know better. Your employer owns the network. In the case of the security guard, they own the building. Anyone that they say should have access should have access. Its not your place to hold your employer's property hostage out of some twisted sense of right and wrong.
This was over 10 years ago but at that time IBM did the same. I had one of those hideously bad IBM Deskstar drives from back then and was on my 5th or 6th replacement before the original 3 year warranty ran out (and the last replacement died less than 6 months after the original warranty was gone).
It forever shattered my faith in IBM hard drives (which was eventually bough by Hitachi), but their warranty service was pretty good.
Notably, the extant US passenger rail system is not very competitive with air travel on most routes outside of the Boston-Washington corridor.
I always wondered why people promoted trains myself once I started pricing Amtrak tickets. I'm typically patient and not in that big of a hurry, so I figured I'd look into taking the train on some trips.
Turned out that it wasn't that much faster than driving, and cost about 95% what a plane ticket would cost. Basically anywhere on the same coast I'm ahead to drive and anywhere further out plane is a better option.
Actually during that same timeframe Apple was really on the brink of going out of business too.
Apple is the greatest comeback story in the tech industry. Until Jobs returned in the very late 1990's the company was basically written off as being done for.
Strange. I had heard about this concept back when I was a kid and was curious as to why I hadn't heard more about it since then.
Back when I was in school we used to get a little magazine called "Weekly Reader" and back around 1991-ish I remember them having an article about scientists having created artificial blood. It didn't have any disease fighting capability but could carry oxygen (and was apparently white in color before being used).
So you're going to give a bunch of people who may or may not know how to fire and/or aim a firearm the job of executing someone? When half of them miss and the other half have bad hits its going to be mighty bad when the prisoner is on the ground screaming and dying slowly.
PS I've never understood the vegetarian quip that more people would be vegetarians if they saw and/or participated in the process of butchering. Vegetarianism is a rather new fad, and until relatively recently most people WERE pretty involved in the butchering process and there was no mass avoidance of meat eating.
Personally having been hunting since I was 7 (and killed my first deer at 9) I've been pretty involved with the butchering process and if you grow up with it its no big thing. I still kill a few deer per year (usually between 2 and 4) and skin/gut all of them myself. Still love eating meat. Heck when I see a cow grazing the first thing I think of is steak and get hungry.
You mistake me for someone who fears 3D printers. I've actually hand fitted and assembled an AR-15 and a 1911. I'm a certified Glock armorer and a competitive shooter. I'm quite experienced and knowledgeable about firearms.
Still, for the common person, the use of machine tools is out of their reach and capability. Running a 3d printer is much less complex and will only get more so. The guns that produce now are very much just proof of concept but a) the technolgoy will improve, and b) over time designs will be made that better work within the limitations of the fabrication technique.
The first flight by the Wright Brothers lasted 12 seconds. Today you can board a jumbo jet and fly from one point on this planet to any other in less than a day. I'm a firm believer that 3D printed guns will eventually be viable and easy to produce for anyone who wants one. I also think that's a good thing.
The Final Fantasy 3 remake is about the only really good game I've found. I didn't get into Final Fantasy until Final Fantasy 8. I was able to go back and play FF7 but anything older than that I could never tolerate graphically. This remake is worthwhile. Of course it's also available on PS Vita and Nintendo DS, but I'm not much of a mobile gamer.
Of course, PS Vita TV is also supposed to be roughly $99 when it launches in a few weeks too (Japan only for now though), and due to it sharing most of the library with the regular PS Vita I think it may do much better as a cheap gaming box.
I recently bought an Ouya myself. Having looked at the system for a bit its not really THAT bad, but you have to go into it knowing the limitations. It's not an Xbox or a Playstation. Its basically a toy for tablet level games but just gives you a way to play them with a controller (which despite the explosion of tablet/mobile games is still a better way to play many things).
The only real games I've used mine for have been Final Fantasy III and emulating consoles. It has worked well for that.
Considering that my original motivation was that I wanted another XBMC box and setting up another Raspberry Pi would have been around $75 (with case, remote, power, etc), I figured that the extra $25 to have a basic "console" wasn't bad. I certainly won't be tossing out my "real" game systems any time soon though.
Comparing a lathe, CNC cutter, mill, etc to a 3d printer is like comparing assembly language to Visual Studio. Sure, you can use both to create the same thing, but you're just either naive or being intentionally thickheaded if you refuse to believe that the latter opens up that capability to a much larger group of people.
Unless, of course, they don't want to tax your out of state driving.
Most states already manage to charge "Use Tax" on out of state purchases - I can totally see them requiring a differently named but equally valued tax for miles driven outside of the state.
I was wondering that when I read it but figured since I don't live there and the GP mentioned it then Oregon must have inspections.
In any event - that "solution" certainly won't work for all states. Here in SC we got rid of them ages ago (I'm thinking close to 20 years ago) and I know a lot of other states don't have them either.
Or when they pass a law saying you have to put one in.
Its not a contract where you negotiate the terms by which you accept - if they pass the law then that's what you have to do. It sucks, and there's a lot of laws on the books that I don't like nor agree with, but to a large degree you just have to suck it up and accept it.
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But the reason most console exclusive games on PS3/360 are exclusive, is not the difficulty of porting the games, but because the console makers pay for the exclusivity, or simply own the studios (like Sony owns Naught Dog).
Which isn't really relevant. It doesn't matter WHY the games are exclusive - just that some games are. If you want to play them you have to either pony up for the console or find another way (eg, emulation).
I actually had a 360 for the entirety of the previous generation (just because it was cheaper) and was fine with that except for exclusives, so this past Black Friday I picked up one of the cheap PS3 bundles and have been using that to work through the back catalog of exclusive titles (The Last of Us, the Uncharted series, Ni-No-Kuni, Kingdom Hearts Remix, etc).
This generation PS4 is actually the cheaper console, so I'm guessing I'll get that over XB One, but unless the emulation catches up I'm sure I'll buy one of those (much) later for the same reason.
Ah. Typing goof. Meant to say bigger, not better. Often times those are as misused as the mass and size situation though :).
Well, mass and size get thrown around a lot semi-interchangeably which they're most definitely not.
80x the MASS of Jupiter and something becomes a star, but the established theory IIRC was that until you get to that point you keep cramming things in and the planet itself just kinda compresses more and doesn't get much bigger than Jupiter. If it ever gets big enough to become a star and achieve fusion then the pressure pushes it out and then it gets better.
So if it is as the summary says and the planet is literally 11 times the size of Jupiter then that's quite a find. It basically says that there's either something wrong with either a) our understanding of planet formation or b) there's something wrong with how we measured this and the data is just wrong.
If its 11 times the mass then yeah - kind of boring and expected.
Exactly. The smart people will believe it's too expensive or not the right time to raise kids while the stupid people will fuck for fun and then have a bunch of kids. Soon there won't be any smart people left and the problem will be solved.
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/603/
I'm not much of a cop movie fan anyways, but if anything movies show police as having too broad of powers compared to real life.
They may have a more difficult time handling the case if questions arise, but you're an idiot if you think a cop needs permission to do something in some parking lot in the town he's employed by. It doesn't work that way.
Sorry, but there are actual laws, and they do matter. Law enforcement has specific bounds that they have to work within. Specifically to South Carolina, the law is 23-1-15. Without that police can look into a criminal case but they cannot enforce any traffic laws within the area.
Any real property which is used as a parking lot and is open to use by the public for motor vehicle traffic shall be within the police jurisdiction with regard to the unlawful operation of motor vehicles in such parking lot.
Such parking lots shall be posted with appropriate signs to inform the public that the area is subject to police jurisdiction with regard to unlawful operation of motor vehicles. The extension of police jurisdiction to such areas shall not be effective until the signs are posted.
This might be the case -- but did the school call the police because they saw someone plugging into their power outlet, or did the policeman do this "in the public good"? If the second, he has no jurisdiction
Not necessarily. I don't know about GA, but next door here in SC there are a lot of parking lots have notices that state "This parking lot under the jurisdiction of XYZ Police Department.". Basically that grants the police department jurisdiction over the parking lot even though its privately owned property. If the school does that then the police do have jurisdiction there.
I actually work for a county so we're directly affiliated with the sheriff's department but even we grant jurisdiction to the town police department rather than having our own patrol vehicles watching the parking lot.
There are plenty of places that sell non-ethanol gas. In particular if you go near a marina they're more common as boat engines specifically tend to not get along with the ethanol.
And, of course, you are ignoring the fact that he was no longer employed by them, and they didn't have the right to order him to do anything anyway.
Two separate courts have already ruled otherwise.
No, but a wallet is significantly thicker. It also has to fold in order to reduce money to a more pocketable size(unless we redesign our paper bills to be the size of credit cards - which actually may be a good idea).
If my wallet were the size of a cell phone and didn't fold I'd have no problems with a rigid one - heck I'd probably prefer it. Things get pretty beat up in there as it is.
I'm with you there. It particularly seems odd considering that one of the primary adjectives used to describe a device of low quality is "flimsy".
Flexing in most construction implies weakness/lack of durability (whether or not it does here is somewhat irrelevant - the human mind is largely set to think of flexing as bad). Just seems like a strange "feature" to add.
What you're describing sounds like one of those crazy scenario's that Asimov describe as to why AI's eventually kill their masters. The point being that the AI lacks common sense and is just rigidly following some instruction that they've extrapolated into something it was never meant to be.
Except that he's not a fucking robot. He's a person that is supposed to know better. Your employer owns the network. In the case of the security guard, they own the building. Anyone that they say should have access should have access. Its not your place to hold your employer's property hostage out of some twisted sense of right and wrong.
This was over 10 years ago but at that time IBM did the same. I had one of those hideously bad IBM Deskstar drives from back then and was on my 5th or 6th replacement before the original 3 year warranty ran out (and the last replacement died less than 6 months after the original warranty was gone).
It forever shattered my faith in IBM hard drives (which was eventually bough by Hitachi), but their warranty service was pretty good.
Notably, the extant US passenger rail system is not very competitive with air travel on most routes outside of the Boston-Washington corridor.
I always wondered why people promoted trains myself once I started pricing Amtrak tickets. I'm typically patient and not in that big of a hurry, so I figured I'd look into taking the train on some trips.
Turned out that it wasn't that much faster than driving, and cost about 95% what a plane ticket would cost. Basically anywhere on the same coast I'm ahead to drive and anywhere further out plane is a better option.
Actually during that same timeframe Apple was really on the brink of going out of business too.
Apple is the greatest comeback story in the tech industry. Until Jobs returned in the very late 1990's the company was basically written off as being done for.
Strange. I had heard about this concept back when I was a kid and was curious as to why I hadn't heard more about it since then.
Back when I was in school we used to get a little magazine called "Weekly Reader" and back around 1991-ish I remember them having an article about scientists having created artificial blood. It didn't have any disease fighting capability but could carry oxygen (and was apparently white in color before being used).
So you're going to give a bunch of people who may or may not know how to fire and/or aim a firearm the job of executing someone? When half of them miss and the other half have bad hits its going to be mighty bad when the prisoner is on the ground screaming and dying slowly.
PS I've never understood the vegetarian quip that more people would be vegetarians if they saw and/or participated in the process of butchering. Vegetarianism is a rather new fad, and until relatively recently most people WERE pretty involved in the butchering process and there was no mass avoidance of meat eating.
Personally having been hunting since I was 7 (and killed my first deer at 9) I've been pretty involved with the butchering process and if you grow up with it its no big thing. I still kill a few deer per year (usually between 2 and 4) and skin/gut all of them myself. Still love eating meat. Heck when I see a cow grazing the first thing I think of is steak and get hungry.
You mistake me for someone who fears 3D printers. I've actually hand fitted and assembled an AR-15 and a 1911. I'm a certified Glock armorer and a competitive shooter. I'm quite experienced and knowledgeable about firearms.
Still, for the common person, the use of machine tools is out of their reach and capability. Running a 3d printer is much less complex and will only get more so. The guns that produce now are very much just proof of concept but a) the technolgoy will improve, and b) over time designs will be made that better work within the limitations of the fabrication technique.
The first flight by the Wright Brothers lasted 12 seconds. Today you can board a jumbo jet and fly from one point on this planet to any other in less than a day. I'm a firm believer that 3D printed guns will eventually be viable and easy to produce for anyone who wants one. I also think that's a good thing.
The Final Fantasy 3 remake is about the only really good game I've found. I didn't get into Final Fantasy until Final Fantasy 8. I was able to go back and play FF7 but anything older than that I could never tolerate graphically. This remake is worthwhile. Of course it's also available on PS Vita and Nintendo DS, but I'm not much of a mobile gamer.
Of course, PS Vita TV is also supposed to be roughly $99 when it launches in a few weeks too (Japan only for now though), and due to it sharing most of the library with the regular PS Vita I think it may do much better as a cheap gaming box.
I recently bought an Ouya myself. Having looked at the system for a bit its not really THAT bad, but you have to go into it knowing the limitations. It's not an Xbox or a Playstation. Its basically a toy for tablet level games but just gives you a way to play them with a controller (which despite the explosion of tablet/mobile games is still a better way to play many things).
The only real games I've used mine for have been Final Fantasy III and emulating consoles. It has worked well for that.
Considering that my original motivation was that I wanted another XBMC box and setting up another Raspberry Pi would have been around $75 (with case, remote, power, etc), I figured that the extra $25 to have a basic "console" wasn't bad. I certainly won't be tossing out my "real" game systems any time soon though.
Comparing a lathe, CNC cutter, mill, etc to a 3d printer is like comparing assembly language to Visual Studio. Sure, you can use both to create the same thing, but you're just either naive or being intentionally thickheaded if you refuse to believe that the latter opens up that capability to a much larger group of people.
NTSC was unchanged and compatible for what, 40 odd years?
1941 to 2009. 68 years.
And I still know people who complained about having to replace TV's when NTSC broadcast stopped.
The current HD standard hasn't had NEARLY enough time to start talking about replacing it. Call back in 10-15 years.
especially considering companies like Google would likely offer DNS for (here look at this advertisement) free
They already do.
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
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Unless, of course, they don't want to tax your out of state driving.
Most states already manage to charge "Use Tax" on out of state purchases - I can totally see them requiring a differently named but equally valued tax for miles driven outside of the state.
I was wondering that when I read it but figured since I don't live there and the GP mentioned it then Oregon must have inspections.
In any event - that "solution" certainly won't work for all states. Here in SC we got rid of them ages ago (I'm thinking close to 20 years ago) and I know a lot of other states don't have them either.
Or when they pass a law saying you have to put one in.
Its not a contract where you negotiate the terms by which you accept - if they pass the law then that's what you have to do. It sucks, and there's a lot of laws on the books that I don't like nor agree with, but to a large degree you just have to suck it up and accept it.