I hate to even respond to this, but actually the radiation output of LCDs and CRTs is considerably different, due to how they generate the picture.
Also, if you think LCDs are still horrible jokes, you haven't been shopping lately. I'm a late convert as well, but the quality on even mid-range LCDs to day is way better than it was even two years ago.
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I meant underdog in purely the marketshare sense.
Clearly, they're the current performance leader, and have been for a while.
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Because everyone loves an underdog. But more importantly, because in the last few years, AMD has been making very nice processors.
If you'd actually seen the benchmarks of Athlon 64's or X2s in the last couple years, you wouldn't have even suggested that it was a technical problem. They'd all handle it fine, and the X2s would probably handle the load better than anything else on the market - new Intels included.
Intel does have some interesting processors coming out soon, but the current ones...well, I'd favor an AMD.
Try imagining your index fingers fitting under the controller, and it doesn't work - the L / R buttons should be on the outer curve, closer to the edge. Otherwise, you'd be pushing into the controller, towards it's center.
Seriously, try putting your hands in that position, you'll see that it's not very comfortable or easy to extend the index finger rather than pushing it "down".
Looks like a mockup to me. Nintendo wouldn't be so stupid as to put L/R buttons on the inner curve there - it wouldn't be useable in SNES style handling.
If you were going to do a button that could be used both as "Z" in the Revolution mode and as L/R in SNES mode, you'd need it to be a rocker switch or something, so that it could be pushed down on either side of the angle.
Adding the SNES standard ABXY buttons, though, would be cool.
Actually, in recent interviews, Reggie has stated that they're putting together the demos, and are working out ways to ensure that the controllers don't get stolen.
They're definitely going to be allowing people to try out the Rev on the show floor, with real software and close-to-final hardware.
Yes, but to work, this would need to be a bootable device, maybe via a DS-slot network frontent cartridge or some such.
Otherwise, any downloaded content could only run in GBA mode.
What I'd imagine is a GBA flash cartridge that could store data for online enabled games and also downloadable games from the online service.
Wifi games could just access the GBA slot's content normally, of course, but to run standalone downloaded content (say, SNES games), you'd need a DS cartridge designed to do it. Of course, they could build the functionality into a future game, and just use that as the front end.
Even if it is a bit limited, this is still a great move.
It also shows that Nintendo is willing to expand on what they originally offered with their Wifi service.
Now, what would be really great is a Nintendo-branded flash card for the GBA slot - say 512MB - so that you could store demos and other content (NES/SNES games from the Rev's online service?). They'd have to digitally sign the downloads to ease piracy concerns, but it could be made fairly secure and still be cool for end users.
If your content isn't all static HTML and is actually available in a way that can be manipulated, making a stripped down version for mobile users really shouldn't be that hard.
As far as how many users would actually notice - I can't say. But since it shouldn't be a huge timesink, I don't see a reason not to.
This of course depends on the type of site; Newegg.com, for example, probably shouldn't attempt a full mobile store, but displaying current sale items or maybe (a much reduced version of) your account page so that you can track shipments wouldn't be too bad, and still offers customers some reason to visit.
I think you are. Most Americans don't know about the stuff they did during the coal strikes and whatnot - they only know that the US investigators in Zorro were from Pinkerton.
Really, some of their "baggage" certainly isn't positive, but they also did some good, and I agree with the grandparent; throwing it away is just silly.
The problem is that, aside from marketing an artist, technology has made them obsolete.
Recording equiptment and mixing software is cheap enough (some is completely free) that actually producing a good recording doesn't have to cost what used to, and an artist can sell music directly to their fans now, without even the need for a retail presence.
So basically the problem is that, if they did use the technology in the way that in inevitably will be used, it essentially makes their business cease to exist. It's going to happen anyway (or at least it will be significantly reduced) - they're just going to resist it to the bitter end.
What I don't understand is why they're able to. The music labels have money, true enough, but not nearly as much as many tech companies do. I guess they just have more connections, due to decades of practice.
Maybe elsewhere that's true, but I worked in the newsroom of a major newspaper for 5 years, and outside the Art Department I can count the Macs I saw on one hand.
No, but as Kerry wasn't much better in my eyes, I chose the Badnarik, the libertarian candidate - of the four largest parties, I sided with his views more than the others.
Having said that, I live in Texas, so my vote didn't matter that much except maybe in helping with funding for the next round.
At least we don't have never-expiring extensions that never come up for review.
The simple fact of the matter is that I just don't trust our current administration with the powers they've been granted - and that's quite a change considering I voted for Bush in 2000. He's done a lot to convince me I didn't pick the best man for the job - you'd almost think he was trying.
You have no democracy at all.
That equally describes the society where there's no expectation of privacy, and every citizen knows they may be under government surveillance.
You're not safer under either approach - one just gives your the appearance of safety, while changing the direction the threat comes from and possibly inspiring future violence.
This isn't a safe world, and it never has been. That's not going to change regardless of whether we start considering our own populace to be potential mass murderers and spying on them.
Such action is very likely to end up actually inspiring more domestic terrorism in the long run, as people become fearful that their rights are being removed.
We'll see; the courts have generally been fairly resistant to outlawing a technology just because it might be used for piracy.
Of course, congress could change this via legislation, but I don't see anything too scary about this specific case - no more so than other cases where both piracy and mod chips have been involved.
It may have more to do with the use; a mod chip becomes a copyright protection circumvention device when that's what you use it for.
If you're using it to run linux, it doesn't really fit that definition, and I haven't seen Microsoft go after a modder here in the US where there weren't pirated games included in the sale.
The government has no business knowing what I'm reading to begin with, and as a former exchange student who spent significant time studying in two other countries, I might have hit the same watch lists.
And until the last few years, I was a Republican; even voted for Bush in his first term.
The fact of the matter is, when you're dealing with citizens who have neither been charged with or suspected of a crime, any sort of "watch list" comes dangerously close to thought crime.
Investigation of known terrorist organizations and individuals who have a relationship with them is certainly expected, and it's exactly what the government should be doing.
However, the simple fact of the matter is that this isn't a safe world, it never has been, and this sort of thing won't make things any safer.
Many of the people who would end up on a watch list based on the scenario in the article would go on to be people in positions of power later in their lives - people who have seen the world, have a good education, and have done their best to be well read. Does this really fit the description of most terrorists?
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I hate to even respond to this, but actually the radiation output of LCDs and CRTs is considerably different, due to how they generate the picture.
Also, if you think LCDs are still horrible jokes, you haven't been shopping lately. I'm a late convert as well, but the quality on even mid-range LCDs to day is way better than it was even two years ago.
I meant underdog in purely the marketshare sense.
Clearly, they're the current performance leader, and have been for a while.
Because everyone loves an underdog. But more importantly, because in the last few years, AMD has been making very nice processors.
If you'd actually seen the benchmarks of Athlon 64's or X2s in the last couple years, you wouldn't have even suggested that it was a technical problem. They'd all handle it fine, and the X2s would probably handle the load better than anything else on the market - new Intels included.
Intel does have some interesting processors coming out soon, but the current ones...well, I'd favor an AMD.
Well, they are German...
I saw it right the first time.
Try imagining your index fingers fitting under the controller, and it doesn't work - the L / R buttons should be on the outer curve, closer to the edge. Otherwise, you'd be pushing into the controller, towards it's center.
Seriously, try putting your hands in that position, you'll see that it's not very comfortable or easy to extend the index finger rather than pushing it "down".
Looks like a mockup to me. Nintendo wouldn't be so stupid as to put L/R buttons on the inner curve there - it wouldn't be useable in SNES style handling.
If you were going to do a button that could be used both as "Z" in the Revolution mode and as L/R in SNES mode, you'd need it to be a rocker switch or something, so that it could be pushed down on either side of the angle.
Adding the SNES standard ABXY buttons, though, would be cool.
Actually, in recent interviews, Reggie has stated that they're putting together the demos, and are working out ways to ensure that the controllers don't get stolen.
They're definitely going to be allowing people to try out the Rev on the show floor, with real software and close-to-final hardware.
It doesn't really take up anything if you're playing a full-screen game, but yes, you can disable it pretty easily in the current betas.
Of course, it doesn't really take up CPU cycles so much - if you've got the video hardware for it, most of the big stuff should happen there.
Yes, but to work, this would need to be a bootable device, maybe via a DS-slot network frontent cartridge or some such.
Otherwise, any downloaded content could only run in GBA mode.
What I'd imagine is a GBA flash cartridge that could store data for online enabled games and also downloadable games from the online service.
Wifi games could just access the GBA slot's content normally, of course, but to run standalone downloaded content (say, SNES games), you'd need a DS cartridge designed to do it. Of course, they could build the functionality into a future game, and just use that as the front end.
Even if it is a bit limited, this is still a great move.
It also shows that Nintendo is willing to expand on what they originally offered with their Wifi service.
Now, what would be really great is a Nintendo-branded flash card for the GBA slot - say 512MB - so that you could store demos and other content (NES/SNES games from the Rev's online service?). They'd have to digitally sign the downloads to ease piracy concerns, but it could be made fairly secure and still be cool for end users.
If your content isn't all static HTML and is actually available in a way that can be manipulated, making a stripped down version for mobile users really shouldn't be that hard.
As far as how many users would actually notice - I can't say. But since it shouldn't be a huge timesink, I don't see a reason not to.
This of course depends on the type of site; Newegg.com, for example, probably shouldn't attempt a full mobile store, but displaying current sale items or maybe (a much reduced version of) your account page so that you can track shipments wouldn't be too bad, and still offers customers some reason to visit.
Really, some of their "baggage" certainly isn't positive, but they also did some good, and I agree with the grandparent; throwing it away is just silly.
Recording equiptment and mixing software is cheap enough (some is completely free) that actually producing a good recording doesn't have to cost what used to, and an artist can sell music directly to their fans now, without even the need for a retail presence.
So basically the problem is that, if they did use the technology in the way that in inevitably will be used, it essentially makes their business cease to exist. It's going to happen anyway (or at least it will be significantly reduced) - they're just going to resist it to the bitter end.
What I don't understand is why they're able to. The music labels have money, true enough, but not nearly as much as many tech companies do. I guess they just have more connections, due to decades of practice.
Maybe elsewhere that's true, but I worked in the newsroom of a major newspaper for 5 years, and outside the Art Department I can count the Macs I saw on one hand.
Nintendo proved Radarscope was a failure more than 20 years ago...I don't see what they think they're going to accomplish.
Yeah, if you'd actually read the US-CERT report instead of just the article summary, you probably wouldn't have that.
No, but as Kerry wasn't much better in my eyes, I chose the Badnarik, the libertarian candidate - of the four largest parties, I sided with his views more than the others.
Having said that, I live in Texas, so my vote didn't matter that much except maybe in helping with funding for the next round.
Yeah, that's it. I don't see anything in my post that said my change of opinion was recent.
Thanks, but I was dissatisfied before 9-11, and I he'd completely lost my support well before we were ever in Iraq.
Maybe next time you can cut the sarcasm long enough to actually find a target that's worth it.
At least we don't have never-expiring extensions that never come up for review.
The simple fact of the matter is that I just don't trust our current administration with the powers they've been granted - and that's quite a change considering I voted for Bush in 2000. He's done a lot to convince me I didn't pick the best man for the job - you'd almost think he was trying.
You have no democracy at all. That equally describes the society where there's no expectation of privacy, and every citizen knows they may be under government surveillance.
You're not safer under either approach - one just gives your the appearance of safety, while changing the direction the threat comes from and possibly inspiring future violence.
This isn't a safe world, and it never has been. That's not going to change regardless of whether we start considering our own populace to be potential mass murderers and spying on them.
Such action is very likely to end up actually inspiring more domestic terrorism in the long run, as people become fearful that their rights are being removed.
We'll see; the courts have generally been fairly resistant to outlawing a technology just because it might be used for piracy.
Of course, congress could change this via legislation, but I don't see anything too scary about this specific case - no more so than other cases where both piracy and mod chips have been involved.
It may have more to do with the use; a mod chip becomes a copyright protection circumvention device when that's what you use it for.
If you're using it to run linux, it doesn't really fit that definition, and I haven't seen Microsoft go after a modder here in the US where there weren't pirated games included in the sale.
The government has no business knowing what I'm reading to begin with, and as a former exchange student who spent significant time studying in two other countries, I might have hit the same watch lists.
And until the last few years, I was a Republican; even voted for Bush in his first term.
The fact of the matter is, when you're dealing with citizens who have neither been charged with or suspected of a crime, any sort of "watch list" comes dangerously close to thought crime.
Investigation of known terrorist organizations and individuals who have a relationship with them is certainly expected, and it's exactly what the government should be doing.
However, the simple fact of the matter is that this isn't a safe world, it never has been, and this sort of thing won't make things any safer.
Many of the people who would end up on a watch list based on the scenario in the article would go on to be people in positions of power later in their lives - people who have seen the world, have a good education, and have done their best to be well read. Does this really fit the description of most terrorists?
What the hell? I never suggested he should be left alone. I'm merely pointing out that a statement was probably inaccurate.
That in no way suggests I'm a supporter at all, and I don't have a fucking clue how you got that from what I wrote.