never thought of it in that perspective, but yeah, both of you are right:D
thanks for pointing that out, i get a bit disgruntled every time i see some linux distro id really like to try out, but theres a $150 price tag and no free downloadable edition.
It seems linux distos like Mandriva and Red Hat have totally and completely forgotten their roots. Isn't the goal of Linux to provide a QUALITY os to people for FREE and have it OPEN SOURCE so the Linux community can make their own modifications to the code? And yet to get a x86-64 version of Mandriva, its going to cost me $150, plus shipping. WTF is that. Winblows is cheaper than that. I mean yes, they need to make some profit to keep going and cover packaging costs, but holy shit....I mean seriously. They are turning into another money grubbing microshaft corporation. I've seen so many linux distos now that dont offer half their products as a free download anymore.
but what do I know....
Well, the only problem with PDA's is the screen size. That, and battery life.
If I could get something with a screen size the size of a normal book, and with infinite battery life, that would be awesome.
And that's not impossible - my friends high school science fair project was making batteries that never ran out - they constantly recharged themselves. It was pretty sweet. Of course, you can expect something like that to never go mainstream, considering Energizer and Duracell would throw a fit.
Admittingly, they only got around.5v out of them, but considering its just a high school science fair project, it was pretty impressive.
This is completely stupid. The reason I read books is to give my eyes a break FROM the screen, so I can sit outdoors and breath some fresh air. I read so that I'm not sitting in front of a monitor all day, bathing my eyes in radiation and making my eyeglass prescription worse by the second.
I think THIS is the point e-book retailers are missing - most people would simply rather sit down outside on their front porch, or maybe just lie down in bed with a REAL book.
That's why I never caught onto e-Books.
Then again, you have the piracy protection issue. Most you can basically only download on ONE computer, and if something crashes, or you upgrade your mobo and have to reformat and reinstall - too bad. The e-book is tied to THAT particular computer, and you basically have built a new one. Theres $15 bucks down the drain. Theres another point - the price of e-books. You can't sell electronic data for the same price as a real physical object - albiet, prices HAVE gone down on them a bit, but not enough to entice me. Of course, it isn't the price that bothers me, its the first reason I listed.
the minute I tried out Opera, I was hooked. A couple of my friends spent months trying to convince me to try it out, and I never really did. Opera is absolutely beautiful, very clean, functional, and customizable. I love it.
I dropped FireFox like a....well a something once I'd tried out Opera.
But, to stay on topic:D don't take this story for face value. Like an earlier poster said, its Quality, not Quantity. There might be a few tiny little security holes and maybe just 2 gaping security holes in IE - which one would you rather use?
Plus theres the obligatory "download our new patch to fix the patch that was designed to fix the patch for the security hole" deal thats involved with IE.
Well thats a relief:D I guess I wasn't reading into it enough.
I love Zelda - especially Ocarina, and no thats not becuase I'm some kind of stupid little kid that grew up on his 64 and bitches every time something comes out that isn't "realistic" and full of blood and gore so I can impress my stupid pre-pubescent friends. I liked Windwaker a LOT. But...
oops. starting in on a rant there. sorry.
i thought it kind of odd that Nintendo would abandon Zelda i mean they make a shitload of money from it
The problem is, you people seem to keep forgetting one very important fact. A few days ago Slashdot ran an article saying Twilight Princess would be the last Zelda game ever, unless I missed something and that was totally duped.
We're not being prevented from including features, and that's the strength of the settlement that we reached with the Justice Department and others. There's quite a bit of process we go through to make sure that the way we're putting them in and exposing them to third parties, that we're meeting all the requirements of that. But it's not preventing us from being very, very innovative and making it as -----rich----- as we want to.
Beautiful choice of words. I couldn't have said it better myself.
Why wouldn't books be entertainment? I can get far more immersed in the worlds of Anne McCaffery, or Terry Brooks, or Tolkein than I can in any game.
Games have unreal limitations to them. Such as that random invisible wall you can't pass, that curb you can't jump for some reason, that vortex in the middle of the hills that you inexplicibly get stuck in...
Books are a GREAT form of entertainment. Try reading one some time.
Although what I meant to say there was how many times it had been abused, I realize its not what I said and theres no way to figure that out from what I said lol, so I apologize there.
However -
Under "Other Cases" in the abuse section, its simply an extension of a law Clinton enacted.
And thats hardly an abuse of the act imo considering he was encouraging terrorist acts against the United States.
And under "Distasteful Prosecutions" I have ALWAYS been a firm believe in the fact that in criminal cases, journalists should be required to hand over any evidence, incriminating or otherwise, about the person being tried. I hardly count that an abuse of the Patriot Act, I think the FBI in cases involving federal crimes should be allowed to obtain financial records. You should have nothing to fear from this, if you have nothing to hide. If you have something to hide, perhaps you need to be thinking about what you are doing.
The only abuses I see can be counted on one hand - the professor and Brandon Mayfield. I beleive that to search a house you MUST have a warrant, and to arrest someone you MUST have good cause, not just simply a suspicion. And in the professors case, what he was arrested under was also something that the Patriot Act just extended.
The "alleged abuses" I see no problem with, nor do I even see how it is being used against the homeless. It is certainly within the government's right to issue a warning to the general public, if it has recieved reliable intelligence, that terrorists might pose as homeless people. The others are all crimes, although there are other laws and acts that should be applied in those situations, not the Patriot Act.
My contention is that no, overall the Patriot Act is definitely not a good thing. We don't need to have it. The fact that the potential is there is not a good thing. I believe this about its current form - I think it does need to be revised to allow us our basic constitutional rights. Some parts of it are good, others are not. Even if it is not abused, the potential makes a lot of people nervous, and in the end its simply best not to have it there.
However I don't think its something we need to be very concerned about, unless you regularly wander the streets of new york in a turban and robe, yelling obscenities about the US and swearing to blow up the white house.
I've always thought it interesting that people would pay twice as much for a UMD when they can get it on a DVD for cheaper, and it can be played on a plethora of different devices, not JUST a $300 hand-held toy.
"In other news today, Bush accidentally bumped the little red button on his desk that the Thermo-Nuclear act allowed to be placed there. In the following holocaust, all of China and a few dogs from greenland died. Our hearts go out to those poor canines in their last moments of suffering"
No, come on seriously. Theres gonna be so many more safeguards on this damn act thats its NEVER going to be used. Can you count how many times the Patriot act has been invoked? Bet you can do it one one hand. I mean that thing has like no failsafes against it being abused, and yet it never had been to this date. No, I don't think its a good idea to be able to use nukes as a FIRST answer in any war. Yes, I do think it should be an acceptable means, as some people have explained earlier.
And wtf are so many people worried about this? Do you ACTUALLY think that the politicians in Washington, at this time or any time in the future are actually going to allow ANY President the power to nuke someone preemptively?
I mean in Japan we had a horrible time justifying the use of nukes, and we didn't know they would have any sort of long range effects, or of the mass devastation it would cause. And now we have nukes thousands of times more powerful and destructive.
Point being, I'm glad as I'm reading through these slashdot posts that slashdot isnt as much of a "Blame-it-on-Bush" place as I thought, and theres still some clear thinkers here. Just because I support Bush does that mean I agree with everything he does? Of course not. Nobody should be 100% aligned with ANYONE, because EVERYONE has individual personalities and beliefs. It doesn't work that way.
Anyway sorry for getting off on those tangents, but thats whats on my brain tonight.
lmao i like that, all Hitler, all the time.
sad thing is its true:p
but even sadder is that i watch those all the time, even the ones ive seen before:D
(and secretely enjoy doing it....:O....)
I can see it now - history channel is gonna grab this up like candy so they don't have to keep showing WWII reruns.
Ancient Chinese Drunks
Ancient Egyptian Drunks
Ancient Mesopotamiam Drunks
and a whole series.....
I imagine what they mean is that the diameter of the new object is bigger than pluto's diameter or something along those lines.
I don't know why something in a cigar shape couldn't be bigger than pluto. Its like asking how could a cigar be bigger than a marble. It just is.
"The gameplay itself was so addictive that players often played the game through three times just to experience it from the perspective of all three races."
Ok, i played through the game way more than three times, but isnt the campaign itself designed so that you play through it with each race? You don't need to play through the campaign three times....
"I don't think there's a man alive who hasn't played Madden."
Me. I hate sports games. I hate sports in general. I've never had an interest in them. The real world needs to understand that real gamers don't sit around playing Tony Hawk, Madden, and Grand Theft Auto. Sure, some of us may play those - but i doubt any of you would say those are your favorites, or even play them very often.
Ocarina of time should have been way, way up there. Almost all the other games you can point out weaknesses, annoying parts, parts that could have been better - I'm basically a PC gamer only - but imo I would have put it right at a tie with Half-Life, or maybe even above. It basically IS the perfect game. When I got it, I played through it about 40 or so times before I even TOUCHED another game. Since then I've pretty much fallen away from console gaming - but I can fight Gannondorf several times in one day if I feel like it and not get a sense of boredom. It's simply so....AWESOME....
Ok...correct me if I'm wrong, but wtf is up with them saying Nintendo's entry into the handheld market? I mean for the longest time, the game boy series was basically the ONLY handheld to have...I mean yeah sure, Nintendo's fallen behind all the others, but this guy sounds like hes saying Nintendo has ALWAYS been behind.
Something that i have seen here that is a bit of a misconception is that some people seem to think 64 bit processors are twice as fast, or can handle twice as much data as a 32-bit processor. This is not so. 4 types of data run through a processor:
Integer
Address
String
Floating Point
in a 32 bit processor, the ranges are as follows
Integer - 32
Address - 32
String - 64
Floating Point - 128
in a 64 bit processor, however, the ranges are as follows
Integer - 64
Address - 64
String - 64
Floating Point - 128
All that is simply saying, by saying a 64-bit processor, is that the processer can handle 64 binary instructions per clock cycle, twice as many as a 32 bit processer, only in the integer and address ranges. so it is not truly twice as fast, and neither can it truly handle twice as much data, just 2 of the 4 types of data have been doubled.
theoretically, a 64 bit processor could address 16 exabytes of ram (i believe this is 16 million gigs of ram) but obviously there are limitations to this. and interesting fact i thought i would stick in here:p
ps. - my ranges for floating point and string might have been reversed, now that i think about it i cant remember whether floating point is 128 bit or whether string data is 128 bit.
They were not referring to the size of the universe, but the problem with there being a uniform distribution of heat, or the microwaves they mentioned. The radiation could NOT have traveled faster than light. However I have an explanation of my own that I posted under this message, read it. I dont understand why the Horizon Problem is a problem at all.
You are right however, nothing prevents empty space from traveling faster than light. I image it like two objects bumping together, the one object going steady. When the one object is stationary (space) and the other object is moving forward at a steady pace (our catalyst, the big bang, assuming that theory is correct), the stationary object is propelled forwards at a faster pace than the moving object, unless the moving object is going very very slow, but the big bang theory says it happened very rapidly.
There would be no friction/gravity to slow the now moving object down (space) so this explains why the expansion of the universe is speeding up, rather than slowing down.
should have made that a bit clearer, again:
if there was a big bang, then when it exploded, then the radiation would have traveled in all directions for 14 billion light years, from the center. Now if you take two points on each end of the universe, they claim that is 28 billion light years apart. This makes perfect sense....diameter is supposed to be twice the radius.
"That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old."
therefore, we can theorize that light travels at twice the speed of light, accounting for the exact doubling of the numbers.
but in all seriosness, this makes perfect sense. assuming the big bang theory is true (which personally i do not believe it is) then it would have exploded in what is now the center of the universe, and worked its way outward from there, assuming a perfect sphere (which i know the universe is not, but for numbers like these it is close enough) you simply have the diameter and the radius. i dont understand why this is a problem for them.
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never thought of it in that perspective, but yeah, both of you are right :D
thanks for pointing that out, i get a bit disgruntled every time i see some linux distro id really like to try out, but theres a $150 price tag and no free downloadable edition.
It seems linux distos like Mandriva and Red Hat have totally and completely forgotten their roots. Isn't the goal of Linux to provide a QUALITY os to people for FREE and have it OPEN SOURCE so the Linux community can make their own modifications to the code? And yet to get a x86-64 version of Mandriva, its going to cost me $150, plus shipping. WTF is that. Winblows is cheaper than that. I mean yes, they need to make some profit to keep going and cover packaging costs, but holy shit....I mean seriously. They are turning into another money grubbing microshaft corporation. I've seen so many linux distos now that dont offer half their products as a free download anymore. but what do I know....
Well, the only problem with PDA's is the screen size. That, and battery life. If I could get something with a screen size the size of a normal book, and with infinite battery life, that would be awesome. And that's not impossible - my friends high school science fair project was making batteries that never ran out - they constantly recharged themselves. It was pretty sweet. Of course, you can expect something like that to never go mainstream, considering Energizer and Duracell would throw a fit. Admittingly, they only got around .5v out of them, but considering its just a high school science fair project, it was pretty impressive.
This is completely stupid. The reason I read books is to give my eyes a break FROM the screen, so I can sit outdoors and breath some fresh air. I read so that I'm not sitting in front of a monitor all day, bathing my eyes in radiation and making my eyeglass prescription worse by the second. I think THIS is the point e-book retailers are missing - most people would simply rather sit down outside on their front porch, or maybe just lie down in bed with a REAL book. That's why I never caught onto e-Books. Then again, you have the piracy protection issue. Most you can basically only download on ONE computer, and if something crashes, or you upgrade your mobo and have to reformat and reinstall - too bad. The e-book is tied to THAT particular computer, and you basically have built a new one. Theres $15 bucks down the drain. Theres another point - the price of e-books. You can't sell electronic data for the same price as a real physical object - albiet, prices HAVE gone down on them a bit, but not enough to entice me. Of course, it isn't the price that bothers me, its the first reason I listed.
the minute I tried out Opera, I was hooked. A couple of my friends spent months trying to convince me to try it out, and I never really did. Opera is absolutely beautiful, very clean, functional, and customizable. I love it. I dropped FireFox like a....well a something once I'd tried out Opera. But, to stay on topic :D don't take this story for face value. Like an earlier poster said, its Quality, not Quantity. There might be a few tiny little security holes and maybe just 2 gaping security holes in IE - which one would you rather use?
Plus theres the obligatory "download our new patch to fix the patch that was designed to fix the patch for the security hole" deal thats involved with IE.
Well thats a relief :D I guess I wasn't reading into it enough.
I love Zelda - especially Ocarina, and no thats not becuase I'm some kind of stupid little kid that grew up on his 64 and bitches every time something comes out that isn't "realistic" and full of blood and gore so I can impress my stupid pre-pubescent friends. I liked Windwaker a LOT. But...
oops. starting in on a rant there. sorry.
i thought it kind of odd that Nintendo would abandon Zelda i mean they make a shitload of money from it
The problem is, you people seem to keep forgetting one very important fact. A few days ago Slashdot ran an article saying Twilight Princess would be the last Zelda game ever, unless I missed something and that was totally duped.
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/05
lol, well consider me beat senseless. i dont grab sarcasm out of text very well :D
We're not being prevented from including features, and that's the strength of the settlement that we reached with the Justice Department and others. There's quite a bit of process we go through to make sure that the way we're putting them in and exposing them to third parties, that we're meeting all the requirements of that. But it's not preventing us from being very, very innovative and making it as -----rich----- as we want to. Beautiful choice of words. I couldn't have said it better myself.
Why wouldn't books be entertainment? I can get far more immersed in the worlds of Anne McCaffery, or Terry Brooks, or Tolkein than I can in any game. Games have unreal limitations to them. Such as that random invisible wall you can't pass, that curb you can't jump for some reason, that vortex in the middle of the hills that you inexplicibly get stuck in... Books are a GREAT form of entertainment. Try reading one some time.
Interesting.
Although what I meant to say there was how many times it had been abused, I realize its not what I said and theres no way to figure that out from what I said lol, so I apologize there.
However -
Under "Other Cases" in the abuse section, its simply an extension of a law Clinton enacted.
And thats hardly an abuse of the act imo considering he was encouraging terrorist acts against the United States.
And under "Distasteful Prosecutions" I have ALWAYS been a firm believe in the fact that in criminal cases, journalists should be required to hand over any evidence, incriminating or otherwise, about the person being tried. I hardly count that an abuse of the Patriot Act, I think the FBI in cases involving federal crimes should be allowed to obtain financial records. You should have nothing to fear from this, if you have nothing to hide. If you have something to hide, perhaps you need to be thinking about what you are doing.
The only abuses I see can be counted on one hand - the professor and Brandon Mayfield. I beleive that to search a house you MUST have a warrant, and to arrest someone you MUST have good cause, not just simply a suspicion. And in the professors case, what he was arrested under was also something that the Patriot Act just extended. The "alleged abuses" I see no problem with, nor do I even see how it is being used against the homeless. It is certainly within the government's right to issue a warning to the general public, if it has recieved reliable intelligence, that terrorists might pose as homeless people. The others are all crimes, although there are other laws and acts that should be applied in those situations, not the Patriot Act.
My contention is that no, overall the Patriot Act is definitely not a good thing. We don't need to have it. The fact that the potential is there is not a good thing. I believe this about its current form - I think it does need to be revised to allow us our basic constitutional rights. Some parts of it are good, others are not. Even if it is not abused, the potential makes a lot of people nervous, and in the end its simply best not to have it there.
However I don't think its something we need to be very concerned about, unless you regularly wander the streets of new york in a turban and robe, yelling obscenities about the US and swearing to blow up the white house.
I've always thought it interesting that people would pay twice as much for a UMD when they can get it on a DVD for cheaper, and it can be played on a plethora of different devices, not JUST a $300 hand-held toy.
correction to make - never *HAS* been to this date.
"In other news today, Bush accidentally bumped the little red button on his desk that the Thermo-Nuclear act allowed to be placed there. In the following holocaust, all of China and a few dogs from greenland died. Our hearts go out to those poor canines in their last moments of suffering" No, come on seriously. Theres gonna be so many more safeguards on this damn act thats its NEVER going to be used. Can you count how many times the Patriot act has been invoked? Bet you can do it one one hand. I mean that thing has like no failsafes against it being abused, and yet it never had been to this date. No, I don't think its a good idea to be able to use nukes as a FIRST answer in any war. Yes, I do think it should be an acceptable means, as some people have explained earlier. And wtf are so many people worried about this? Do you ACTUALLY think that the politicians in Washington, at this time or any time in the future are actually going to allow ANY President the power to nuke someone preemptively? I mean in Japan we had a horrible time justifying the use of nukes, and we didn't know they would have any sort of long range effects, or of the mass devastation it would cause. And now we have nukes thousands of times more powerful and destructive. Point being, I'm glad as I'm reading through these slashdot posts that slashdot isnt as much of a "Blame-it-on-Bush" place as I thought, and theres still some clear thinkers here. Just because I support Bush does that mean I agree with everything he does? Of course not. Nobody should be 100% aligned with ANYONE, because EVERYONE has individual personalities and beliefs. It doesn't work that way. Anyway sorry for getting off on those tangents, but thats whats on my brain tonight.
lmao i like that, all Hitler, all the time. sad thing is its true :p
but even sadder is that i watch those all the time, even the ones ive seen before :D
(and secretely enjoy doing it....:O....)
I can see it now - history channel is gonna grab this up like candy so they don't have to keep showing WWII reruns. Ancient Chinese Drunks Ancient Egyptian Drunks Ancient Mesopotamiam Drunks and a whole series.....
I imagine what they mean is that the diameter of the new object is bigger than pluto's diameter or something along those lines. I don't know why something in a cigar shape couldn't be bigger than pluto. Its like asking how could a cigar be bigger than a marble. It just is.
"The gameplay itself was so addictive that players often played the game through three times just to experience it from the perspective of all three races."
Ok, i played through the game way more than three times, but isnt the campaign itself designed so that you play through it with each race? You don't need to play through the campaign three times....
"I don't think there's a man alive who hasn't played Madden."
Me. I hate sports games. I hate sports in general. I've never had an interest in them. The real world needs to understand that real gamers don't sit around playing Tony Hawk, Madden, and Grand Theft Auto. Sure, some of us may play those - but i doubt any of you would say those are your favorites, or even play them very often.
Ocarina of time should have been way, way up there. Almost all the other games you can point out weaknesses, annoying parts, parts that could have been better - I'm basically a PC gamer only - but imo I would have put it right at a tie with Half-Life, or maybe even above. It basically IS the perfect game. When I got it, I played through it about 40 or so times before I even TOUCHED another game. Since then I've pretty much fallen away from console gaming - but I can fight Gannondorf several times in one day if I feel like it and not get a sense of boredom. It's simply so....AWESOME....
Ok...correct me if I'm wrong, but wtf is up with them saying Nintendo's entry into the handheld market? I mean for the longest time, the game boy series was basically the ONLY handheld to have...I mean yeah sure, Nintendo's fallen behind all the others, but this guy sounds like hes saying Nintendo has ALWAYS been behind.
In reference to the blood-fuel cell...
"The newly developed cell in the size of a tiny coin is able to generate 0,2 milliwatts of electricity"
If they develop gpus that run off that kind of wattage, THEN we will really have something.
sorry about that...no periods. id forgotten that all my nicely spaced out lines would be crammed together when i submitted my comment.
Something that i have seen here that is a bit of a misconception is that some people seem to think 64 bit processors are twice as fast, or can handle twice as much data as a 32-bit processor. This is not so. 4 types of data run through a processor: Integer Address String Floating Point in a 32 bit processor, the ranges are as follows Integer - 32 Address - 32 String - 64 Floating Point - 128 in a 64 bit processor, however, the ranges are as follows Integer - 64 Address - 64 String - 64 Floating Point - 128 All that is simply saying, by saying a 64-bit processor, is that the processer can handle 64 binary instructions per clock cycle, twice as many as a 32 bit processer, only in the integer and address ranges. so it is not truly twice as fast, and neither can it truly handle twice as much data, just 2 of the 4 types of data have been doubled. theoretically, a 64 bit processor could address 16 exabytes of ram (i believe this is 16 million gigs of ram) but obviously there are limitations to this. and interesting fact i thought i would stick in here :p
ps. - my ranges for floating point and string might have been reversed, now that i think about it i cant remember whether floating point is 128 bit or whether string data is 128 bit.
They were not referring to the size of the universe, but the problem with there being a uniform distribution of heat, or the microwaves they mentioned. The radiation could NOT have traveled faster than light. However I have an explanation of my own that I posted under this message, read it. I dont understand why the Horizon Problem is a problem at all. You are right however, nothing prevents empty space from traveling faster than light. I image it like two objects bumping together, the one object going steady. When the one object is stationary (space) and the other object is moving forward at a steady pace (our catalyst, the big bang, assuming that theory is correct), the stationary object is propelled forwards at a faster pace than the moving object, unless the moving object is going very very slow, but the big bang theory says it happened very rapidly. There would be no friction/gravity to slow the now moving object down (space) so this explains why the expansion of the universe is speeding up, rather than slowing down.
should have made that a bit clearer, again: if there was a big bang, then when it exploded, then the radiation would have traveled in all directions for 14 billion light years, from the center. Now if you take two points on each end of the universe, they claim that is 28 billion light years apart. This makes perfect sense....diameter is supposed to be twice the radius.
"That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old."
therefore, we can theorize that light travels at twice the speed of light, accounting for the exact doubling of the numbers.
but in all seriosness, this makes perfect sense. assuming the big bang theory is true (which personally i do not believe it is) then it would have exploded in what is now the center of the universe, and worked its way outward from there, assuming a perfect sphere (which i know the universe is not, but for numbers like these it is close enough) you simply have the diameter and the radius. i dont understand why this is a problem for them.